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...seems to echo the savory words of Mark Twain, printed in 1892 by the New York Sun: "What I have been through in these two weeks would free a person of pretty much everything in him that wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment...
While the present level of radioactivity is still below the "permissible" limits established by the Radiation Council, the Council estimates that the radioactive debris from the 1962 series may produce as many as 1,450 cases of bone cancer and leukemia. Further, 110-139 babies with gross physical or mental defects will be born in the next generation; 3000-5000 such babies will appear in future generations...
Even children with the unnatural appetite known as "pica," who eat just about anything they can get their hands on (TIME, Oct. 12), do not chew enough lead to make them ill immediately. In most children it simply accumulates in their bones. But summer sunshine on their skins sets off biochemical changes in their systems-for one thing, it boosts their supply of vitamin D. Summer is also a time of growth spurts, when the development of new bone calls for a fast turnover of calcium-and lead rides alongside the calcium into the bloodstream, to attack the nervous system...
...must have carried plenty of water during part of the year, for it supported the Chilcas in some style. They lived in conical houses a dozen feet in diameter, made of reeds, straw and willow branches. Many of these houses still exist, covered with sand and preserved by the bone-dry climate. The carbon 14 test proves that at least 50 of them date from 3750 B.C., when the people of Egypt were not much above the same cultural level...
They ground their beans in stone mortars, and since they lacked pottery, boiled their food with hot stones in gourds. They made attractive ornaments of stone, shell and bone, and their flutes prove that they enjoyed music...