Natural building stones must be analysed according to a legally defined procedure to prove that the natural radioactivity they emit is below the so-called activity index given by European Commission. This applies in particular to rooms inside buildings or apartments that are used by people for longe...
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During the final 24 hours leading up to Sandy’s arrival, lines at every major grocery store in Brooklyn and Manhattan were several blocks long, with hours-long wait times just to enter the stores and clerks taking small groups of people in to shop, just a few at a time. Given the ...
“When I went to the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2,500 men inside ‘the walls,’” Maloney later told readers of theKansas City Star. “The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). The blacks slept as...
divergence; Fitzgerald, and, if memory serves, Omar, was using the phrase “where I made One” to mean “where I was present” (as in “he made one of the party”), but Lewis gives it a pantheistic, or perhaps atomistic, turn, reminiscent of Wordsworth’s rocks and stones and ...
These young trees were severely battered by last winter’s snows to the point where all three are several feet shorter than they were last year at this time, and are still missing many of their previous branches. We weren’t sure they would even survive. Our resident squirrel stares at me...
01中国 1 Introduction to China (Hello China)The ancient Yellow River flows uninterrupted from west to east for thousands of years.Silk was made into cloth, while clay was made into pottery and ceramics.Millions of stones were piled into the Great Wall.
Some days my son needs the playground as much as the little ones who claim it now. As his body morphs, mind bends, and spirit wrestles with the idea of growing up, the park, the courts and its playground are where he, and likely his buddies still feel safe. ...
(You know how this system works because you are reading this on a device that you purchased and, if you were so inclined, could be reading it on an entirely different device that you also purchased.) A system that requires increasing levels of consumption can run into problems when basic ...
Among five retouched artifacts found in the lower horizon there are three which show irregular retouch along the edge, e.g. a Levallois point with alternate marginal retouch on both edges (Fig. 7:2). A thick flake reworked in a truncating-faceting manner might be described as an atypical tr...