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When did they get rice?

They had been eating rice pretty much ali

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Their food habits can change rather

drastically and greatly.

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at that point?

DUNHAM:

There wasn't a difference in your counter

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Don't sugges¢, that!

What is the half-life of zinc-65?

Should know, but I don't remember,
DONALDSON:

2.6 years isn't it?

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somthing of that

order of magnitude,
CONARD;

But that wouldn't account for a sudden

change ?

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there has been no drastic change in any Incidence in the

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usually expected declines that have gome om,

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have changed their habits not only in eating fish but in

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DONALDSON:

if I remember the data correctly--~and

Maybe if they

and come back with lots of birds, that would increase it,
FREMONT-SMITH:

Did you do any cultures of white

cells on these people?
CONARD:

For chromosomal abberations,

At ten years

we had quite a few cultures, about 40 cultures.
FREMONT-SMITH:

Dhd they show anything out of the

usual?
CONARD:

They showed persisting aberration, low

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I have it here, but essentially

More than other people would have?

More than the control,

They were compared

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