Wirt,

With the recent dicussions one might think that I am being sarcastic here
but I am not ... not at least when I say the following.

One of the things I really like about your emails is the just-the-right
amount of detail you put in your scientific pieces.   I appreciate the mini
education session that your emails sometimes turn into.   My life is richer
for them .  Thank you.  The fact that you worked with some of this data
makes it a great story as well.   You continue to delight.

Cortlandt Wilson
(650) 966-8555

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>Behalf Of Wirt Atmar
>Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:39 PM
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>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT : US uses Indian 'threat' to force Pak
>support
>
>
>Guy wires:
>
>> The radiation from the old "Glow in the dark" watches was negligible.
>>  Assemblers still died from it.
>
>That is only sort of true. The women who worked for the Radium Dial company
>were asked to make a fine tip on the end of the brushes that they used to
>paint the radium onto the watch hands by rolling the brush tip on their
>tongues, thus they ingested some small amount of radium during the
>course of
>their employments.
>
>As apparently a consequence of that ingestion, they suffered leukemias,
>anemias and bone tumors slightly higher than the general
>population in their
>old age, but not greatly so. For more information, see for example:
>
>     http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/046.html
>
>This is one of the case studies that I worked on for a few weeks when I
>worked at Nuclear Weapons Effects Laboratory at White Sands
>Missile Range 30
>years ago.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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