Atole

Masa was widely used among the Aztecs to produce atole or nutritive gruels. Different kinds of atoles are still consumed in south Mexico and Central 

Lime-Cooked Maize for the Preparation of Indigenous Foods 

Prehispanic dishes in which one of the main ingredients is whole nixtamal, generally prepared from Cacahuacintle (white and large kernels with floury endosperm) maize. Pozole is a spicy soup that generally contains peppers, shredded meats, and other spices. The lime or lye-cooked maize is mixed with beef stomach or shredded pork, peppers, spices, and onions to yield pozole. 

Traditional dish of American Indians of the southwest, prepared from a thin batter of blue maize meal, ash, and water. The batter is cooked on a hot flat stone to form a parchment-like product. Piki can be crumbled, salted, roasted, and eaten like chips. 

Maize kernels are toasted on a hot griddle until attaining a brown-golden color, dry milled into a meal, and blended with cinnamon, anise, brown sugar, and other flavorings. The resulting shelf-stable mix is diluted with water or milk, boiled for about 4 min, and consumed as breakfast gruel. 

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Detonation of the first hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. 

The eoneentration of tritium inereased by over a hundredfold when thermonuelear weapon testing began on Bikini Atoll in Mareh 1954 but has now subsided as a result of the ban on atmospherie weapon testing and the natural radioaetivity of... 

The first hydrogen (fusion) bomb to be tested by the United States is exploded at Bikini Atoll. 

On Wednesday evening, Otto s was as deserted as an atoll. The bartender talked to a patron about copyrighting photographs. 

Bowen SE, Wiley JL, Balster RL The effects of abused inhalants on mouse behavior in an elevated plus-maze. Eur J Pharmacol 312 131-136, 1996a Bowen SE, Wiley JL, Evans EB, et al Functional observational battery comparing effects of ethanol, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, ether, and flurothyl. Neurotoxicol Ter-atol 18 577-583, 1996b... 

Akin C. Brockow K. D Ambrosio C. et al Effects of tyrosine kinase inhibitor SXI571 on human mast cells bearing wild-type or mutated c-kit. Exp Hem-atol 2003 31 686-692. 

The sub-phyllum Anthozoa (6,500 species) contains the classes Alcyonaria (soft corals, sea fans, sea pens, sea pansies), Zoantharia (sea anemones and true corals), and Ceriantipatharia. The Scleroactinia (Madreporaria-true or stony corals) build the massive coral reefs and atolls which occur in tropical waters. According to Hashimoto (75), toxicity to humans is mainly found in the fire or stinging corals (Millepora sp.) and, to a lesser extent, in the stony corals (Goniopora sp.). 

Burger J, Gochfeld M. 2000b. Metals in albatross feathers from Midway Atoll influence of species, age, and nest location. Environ Res 82 207-21. 

Henderson GM, Cohen AS, O Nions RK (1993) " U/ U ratios and °Th ages for Haternma Atoll corals implication for coral diagenesis and seawater " U/ U ratios. Earth Planet Sci Lett 115 65-73 Henderson GM, O Nions RK (1995) " U/ U ratios in Quaternary planktonic foraminifera. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59 4685-4694... 

Thurber DL, Broecker WS, Blanchard RL, Potratz HA (1965) Uranium-series ages of Pacific atoll coral. 

Henderson GM, Cohen AS, O Nions RK (1993) ratios and °Th ages for Hatemma Atoll corals ... 

Bikini Atoll (not specified)a, U.S. Nuclear Test Site from 1946 to 1958, including BRAVO explosion on 3/1/54 Robison etal. 1997b... 

Bikini Atoll. Surface soil collected at 20 sites on Bikini Atoll in 1972 contained 1.2-45 pCi/g of241 Am (Nevissi et al. 1976). This level will increase for several decades as a result of ingrowth from 241Pu before it begins to decrease. Bikini Atoll was the site of 23 nuclear detonations between 1946 and 1958. 

Nevissi A, Schell WR, Nelson VA. 1976. Plutonium and americium in soils of bikini atoll. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. STI/PUB/410 ISBN 92-0-020076-1. 

Robison WL, Bogen KT, Conrado CL. 1997b. An updated dose assessment for resettlement options at Bikini Atoll-a U.S. nuclear test site. Health Phys 73(1) 100-114. 

Walker RB, Gessel SP, Held EE. 1997. The ecosystem study on Rongelap Atoll. Health Phys 73(1) 223-... 

Unstable, silvery metal. The element was first discovered in the fallout from the first hydrogen bomb on the Bikini Atoll (1952), later produced by neutron bombardment of plutonium. Half-lives of the isotopes range from 20 to 401 days. "Relatively short-lived" in comparison to Einstein s formula E=m-c2, which is valid forever. Only of scientific interest. 

Held, E. E. (1963). Qualitative distribution of radionuclides at Rongelap Atoll, page 167 in Radioecology, Schultz, V. and Klement, A. W., Eds. (Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York). 

Welander, A. D. (1969). Distribution of radionuclides in the environment of Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls, August 1964, page 346 in Symposium on Radioecology, USAEC Report No. CONF-670503, Nelson, D. J. and Evans, F. C., Eds. (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

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