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- From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
- Subject: Frozen Radioactive Beagles!
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- Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:09:31 GMT
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- Jeez, and I thought you guys were making this up!
-
- Speaking of thawing and dogs and the warm glow that we all feel
- at Thanksgiving, it seems appropriate here to bring up the matter of
- the 1,000 frozen radioactive federal dogs in California. I am not
- making these dogs up. Several alert readers sent me an editorial about
- them that appeared in The Fresno Bee (Motto: ``Fresno's Most Comically
- Named Newspaper''). It seems that in 1958 the federal government, which
- as you know is always looking for expensive new ways to appear
- ridiculous, began an experiment wherein 1,000 beagles were regularly
- injected with radiation to see what happens when you inject beagles
- regularly with radiation. The last beagle died in 1986, and all of
- their bodies, which are radioactive, are being kept in frozen storage
- near Davis, Calif., along with -- this is still true -- 34,000 gallons
- of radioactive beagle waste.
- So far this project has cost $65 million, not including
- disposal, which is expected to cost a lot more, although nobody has
- figured out how to accomplish it yet. My suggestion would be to simply
- Federal Express everything to Iraq (``Large cold package for Mr.
- Hussein!'').
- - Dave Barry
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- Richard Stueven gak@wrs.com attmail!gakhaus!gak 107/H/3&4
- To sight it must ring clear as a bell, it must snap
- in the ear, feel pleasantly sticky between the fingers,
- smell fresh and tempting and taste heavenly.
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