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When the first reports of such experiments appeared seven years ago -- in a congressional study titled American Nuclear Guinea Pigs -- the Energy Department was less than forthcoming. This time, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary says the Clinton Administration's policy is to "come clean" about the radiation tests, and she has ordered the most thorough investigation ever into the experiments. The Energy Department has also promised to declassify millions of pages of secret documents related to past activities of the nuclear-weapons industry. The worst disclosures may be yet to come...
...used its citizens as guinea pigs...
...exactness of the construction is also important because small glitches can endanger any experiment. Deegan recalls one professor, who, for reasons still unexplained, lost his frogs and with them an experiment in progress. Perfect maintenance with delicate balances is necessary for Harvard's legions of experimental guinea pigs, rats, ants and toads as well, he says...
...Times. Hell, Molly wouldn't even give me gas money to get to Rhode Island, and the powers that be at the Crimson sure weren't going to give me some guinea-pig comper to mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle...
...patient as the company evolves from the third-rate productions of its first season to the mostly second-rate ones now. The women never expected anything quite as glorious as the marketing ballyhoo: America's best actors performing the world's greatest plays. But as one said, "We're guinea pigs." Although they grumblingly concluded they would renew, their conversation reflected the low stature N.A.T. has attained, save for an intelligent, innovative The Seagull. This "national" troupe is like a middling regional theater with glittery casting...