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Background exposure to radiation is about five rem for a non-smoker, and for the heavy smoker about 36 rem. Even this estimate "is probably conservative, and the dose could be 100 rem or more," when the additional radioactive effect of lead 210 and bismuth 210 absorption is included, the report says...
...nation last year and ranked third in purses (with $1,975,118). Of all the Latin Americans, Baeza is the best. The son and grandson of jockeys, he grew up around the tack room of Panama City's Juan Franco race track, where President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was assassinated in 1955. He learned to ride at six, won his first race at 15. Purses in Panama were small and the horses were cheap. "Most of them looked like goats," Baeza recalls. But he quickly became known as a crafty and patient "sit-still" jockey...
When an inhabited satellite orbits 2,200 miles above the earth, its crew will be riddled by the fast-moving protons of the inner Van Allen radiation belt. If unshielded, the spacemen will be inflicted with about 3,000 rem (the unit of radiation effect on human tissue) per week many times more than a lethal dose. Even if the satellite stays below the Van Allen radiation, its crew may still be in peril...
False Premise. The invaders were recruited in Cuba in recent months by an assortment of Panamanians, including Career Rebel Rubén Miró, who was tried and acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British...
Nothing could be done for Technician Kelley. He had received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...