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In outdoor air, radon is diluted to such low concentrations that it is usually nothing to worry about. However, radon can accumulate inside an enclosed space, such as a home, posing a threat to people. The extents of radon in the United States, Massachusetts State and New York State are shown in Maps 31.1 through 31.3 where1 ... 

Jacobson, J. S.. and W. A. Feder. A Regional Network for Environmental Monitoring Atmospheric Oxidant Concentrations and Foliar Injury to Tobacco Indicator Plants in the Eastern United States. Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Statioo Bulletin No. 604. Amherst University of Massachusetts, College of Food and Natural Resources, 1974. 31 pp. 

Massive studies of the health problems associated with fats have included the Anti-Coronary Club study in New York City (2), the Framingham study (3) in Massachusetts, and the Chicago study (4). These studies were financed by the United States federal government and supported by the Surgeon General s office, which issued a statement recommending that the fat component of the diet be reduced from an estimated 40% of calories to 30% (5). 

Gut Rubber and Extruded Latex. The manufacturing technology for cut and extmded mbber thread is much older and more widely known than that for spandex fibers. Because production faciUties can be installed with relatively modest capital investment, manufacture of mbber thread is fragmented and more widely distributed with a few major and many minor producers. On a worldwide basis, Fikattice of Italy is the largest mbber thread producer with modem extmded latex plants in Italy, Spain, Malaysia, and the United States. Second in production capacity is the Globe Manufacturing Co., Fall River, Massachusettes with production operations in the United States and the UK. These firms also produce spandex fibers. 

From about 1815, fast vessels gave Salem, Massachusetts a virtual monopoly of the pepper trade with Sumatra. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the spice trade began to play a secondary role ia economic and pohtical influence. The demand for spices ia the United States directed the shift of the occidental spice center to New York while the oriental center was at Siagapore. 

In the United States, the first ironworks was built at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. The Hammersmith furnace in Saugus, Massachusetts, built in 1645, operated until 1675. This early American ironworks has been restored and is called the Saugus Iron Works. Iron blast furnaces appeared in many locahties where there were deposits of iron ore. Small bodies of iron ore in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York formed the basis of many small colonial furnaces. 

The supply and demand for mbidium compounds has grown steadily since the 1970s. In 1979 the U.S. demand was ca 1040 kg of contained mbidium (16), and total world demand was estimated at approximately twice that of the United States. Reserves of mbidium in North America are estimated at 2 X 10 kg the United States is - 100% import-reliant for mbidium, and Canada is the principal source of the raw material (16). The demand for mbidium metal is small compared to the demand for mbidium compounds. Table 2 fists approximate prices of mbidium metal and mbidium compounds. Primary producers of mbidium are Cabot Performance Chemicals (Boyerstown, Pennsylvania), MSA Research Corporation (Callery, Pennsylvania), and CM Chemical Products, Inc. (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey). Research quantities of mbidium in standard and specialized ampuls are available from Strem Chemicals, Inc. (Newburyport, Massachusetts). 

The principal manufacturers of sutures ia the United States are Deknatel ia Fall River, Massachusetts W. L. Gore Associates ia Flagstaff,... 

Roger Adams (1889-1971) wa s born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his Ph.D. in 1912 at Harvard. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1916 until his retirement in 1957, during which lime he had an enormous influence on the development of organic chemistry in the United States. Among many other accomplishments, he established the structure of tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana. 

Charles John Pedersen (1904-1989) was born in Pusan, Korea, to a Korean mother and Norwegian father. A U.S. citizen, he moved to the United States in the early 1920s and received an M.Sc. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1927. He spent his entire scientific career at the OuPont Company (1927-1969) and received the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is among a very small handful of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who never received a formal doctorate. 

TeleStroke networks (e.g.. Fig. 10.3) are now well estabhshed in Germany and Ontario, as well as in Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, California, and Maryland in the United States. 

Dugan, L.R., Rao, G.V. Technical Report 72-27-FL, 1972, United States Army Laboratories, Natick, Massachusetts... 

In the United States in recent years several diseases with animal hosts are now infecting humans. The Arena virus has as its host certain desert rodents. Rodent droppings when dry and airborne as dust particles infect humans, often with lethal consequences. The West Nile virus appeared in the United States in 1999. Birds carry this virus, and mosquitoes are the vector to humans. In 1999 the virus was localized in the New York City area. By 2000 it has spread across New York State and into New Jersey and Massachusetts. The West Nile virus is especially lethal when it infects children, the elderly, or those with a compromised immune system. 

Massachusetts enacted the first general food law in the United States... 

Initial results of the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes project (NASGLP) are presented from the Northeast United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York) and the Maritime provinces of Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island). 

Wail Alshehi, twenty-eight years old, also a pilot, died on American Airlines Flight 11. Some of the sleepers among the terrorists had been in the United States for years. An example could be Waleed Alshehri, a Saudi national who received a United States Social Security card in 1994. Another example could be Hani Hanjour, the pilot who crashed into the Pentagon, lived in Arizona where he received pilot training for five years before September 11, 2001. Alshehri, while in the United States, may have lived in Hollywood, Florida, and Newton, Massachusetts. 

The first murder ever committed in the United States occurred in September 1630, shortly after the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. John Billington was the father of two sons, one of the first to setde in the new Plymouth Colony near what is today Boston, and one of the people who signed the Mayflower Compact—and he was also the colony s first murderer. 

Limited information was found on atmospheric concentrations of endrin between 1970 and the mid-1980s, prior to cancellation of virtually all uses (Bishop 1984, 1985, 1986 EPA 1993e USDA 1995) (see Section 4.3). The data were insufficient to identify any trends. The mean and maximum airborne concentrations of endrin in the United States in 1970-71 were reported to be 0.2 ng/m3 and 19.2 ng/m3, respectively (Lee 1977). For that same time period, mean airborne concentrations at suburban sites near Jackson, Mississippi, and Columbia, South Carolina, were reported to be 0.1 ng/m3 and 0.2 ng/m3, respectively (Bidleman 1981 Kutz et al. 1976). Endrin was not detected at Boston, Massachusetts, suburban sites... 

Disulfoton was detected in 1 of 360 food composites collected from different locations in the United States in fiscal year 1969. The positive sample was a composite of leafy vegetables collected from Boston, Massachusetts, that contained 2 pg/kg of disulfoton (Corneliussen 1970). From this data, the... 

Michael, A. J. Prakt. Chem. 1887, 35, 349. Arthur Michael (1853-1942) was horn in Buffalo, New York. He studied under Robert Bunsen, August Hofmann, Adolphe Wurtz, and Dimitri Mendeleev, but never bothered to take a degree. Back to the United States, Michael became a Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University, where he married one of his most brilliant students, Helen Abbott, one of the few women organic chemists in this period. Since he failed miserably as an administrator, Michael and his wife set up their own private laboratory at Newton Center, Massachusetts, where the Michael addition was discovered. 

Occurrences in the United States were known as early as 1698 with numerous finds along Brandywine Creek in Pennsylvania (Frondel, 1988). The celebrated purse made from asbestos that Benjamin Franklin took to London in 1724, and which now resides in the British Museum of Natural History, may have been made of long-fiber asbestos from Newbury, Massachusetts. As a journeyman printer, Franklin made paper from asbestos, as did many Europeans. It was also used in making lamp wicks and cloth. Commercial mining in the United States took place some time after the first discovery of asbestos on Staten Island, New York, in 1818. (Asbestos continued to be mined at the site until 1876.) By 1825 more than seventy localities were known to produce asbestos in the United States (Robinson, 1825). However, as early as 1804 Jameson had recorded the mineralogy of the species and listed the numerous university, societal, and private mineral collections containing specimens of asbestos from U.S. localities and asbestos products of local manufacture. 

A small printing company in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, produced 24gal/month (91 L/month) of industrial wastewater mainly consisting of the following two spent chemicals ... 

In 1958, the first SiC conference was held in Boston, Massachusetts. However, after this, the interest in SiC rapidly declined and the 1960s and 1970s are characterized by a low interest in SiC. Research was still ongoing, mainly in the former Soviet Union. In the United States, the work done by Westinghouse and the University of Pittsburgh is primarily notable. Indeed, the photoluminescence studies made by Choyke, Patrick, and Hamilton are still very relevant and often cited [21]. 

BNCT using thermal neutron beams was started in the United States in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The clinical results were very poor. The technique was introduced in Japan by Hatanaka in 1968, and some promising results were obtained. 

Charles D. Coryell, 1912-. Professoi of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Consultant to the Brookhaven and Oak Ridge National Laboratories of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The studies of J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin in his group led to the chemical identification of the missing element 61, which in 1949 was officially named promethium. Dr. Coryell participates actively in the scientific efforts of the Federation of American Scientists and of the United World Federalists toward peace and world stability. 

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