Regarding your response (shown below) to my previous comments, my facts are straight. I expressed the K-40 / tritium comparison in terms of relative biological activity. Did you actually read the essay?
But When Do They Start to Talk about the Real Stuff of Governing?
I heard yesterday that Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain linked Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. (Hmm....blonds alongside a Black man.......pictures say more than words in this case.)
Here's the latest from McCain's sputtering, out of ideas, desperate "campaign". He's clumsily trying to paint Barack Obama as "arrogant" in a new ad that oddly juxtaposes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton with Obama. (I was reminded of the race-baiting ads used against Tennessee senate candidate Harold Ford).
Nobody will shed a tear as the political career of Ehud Olmert grounds to its end. In the two years he had at the helm of the Israeli ship of state, he has failed to perform even a single worthy act.
A lavish Christian ceremony has been held in the South Pacific Island nation of Tonga to celebrate the coronation of king George Tupou the fifth, its first coronation in more than 40 years.
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has dismissed a campaign advertisement by his Republican rival which mocked him for being more of a "celebrity" than a politician.
Ahmed Qureia, the chief Palestinian negotiator to the three-way talks with Israel and the US, has said that agreement must be reached on all issues under negotiation "or there will be no agreement".
Israel's opposition Likud party is calling for fresh elections after the announcement by Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, to step down as leader of his Kadima party.
George Bush, the US president, has said that the violence in Iraq had fallen to its lowest point since 2004 and that progress on the ground is showing a "degree of durability".
Nasa's Phoenix lander exploring Mars has confirmed the presence of water on the planet after analysis of a soil sample from the planet's surface, scientists say.
California has said it plans to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft as well as construction and agricultural equipment.