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Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? NORMAN J. BERRILL July 9 1955
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Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL
LIVING IN the Atomic Age means living in a world more radioactive than it used to be. This age started with the discovery of radioactive uranium and radium. At first, people who worked with these substances suffered from burns, anaemia and bone cancer. By the end of 1953, according to W. C. Hueper, of the National Cancer Institute of the United States, lung cancer had killed forty to fifty percent of the uranium miners at Joachimsthal in Czechoslovakia and from sevent
LIFESAVER IN A LAB COAT
Dr. Best of the Banting-Best insulin team today leads a crack squad of fighters against the diseases of man June 1 1948 GERALD ANGLIN
LIFESAVER IN A LAB COAT
Dr. Best of the Banting-Best insulin team today leads a crack squad of fighters against the diseases of man
GERALD ANGLIN
SOME time after World War II had ended and the last Allied general had made his triumphal tour of liberated Europe, a civilian from Canada was ushered about Britain and the continent to a welcome no less heartfelt if somewhat less tumultuous than that accorded the high brass.
Top 10 Ways We Have Tried Identifying Gay Men
Being gay has always being a controversial topic, so it’s no surprise that governments and researchers have always looked into ways of finding out who is gay and who isn’t. Over the years, they have researched and created several inventions and tests that supposedly distinguished between a gay and a straight male.
Many of these inventions and tests did not work, even though they were believed to. Others were controversial. Some were just plain stupid.
10 The CIA Memo In 1980, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released an elaborate and hilarious memorandum detailing the characteristics typical of gay men. The idea was that the agency would identify these attributes in whoever they were investigating and use it to blackmail them as gay. However, the memo was evidently flawed, even though it correctly stated that gay people could not be recognized by sight alone.