“Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure . . .” McGrayne, Prometheans in the Lab, p. 88.
“These men probably went insane . . .” McGrayne, p. 92.
“In fact, Midgley knew only too well . . .” McGrayne, p. 92.
“One leak from a refrigerator at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio . . .” McGrayne, p. 97.
“One pound of CFCs can capture . . .” Biddle, p. 62.
“A single CFC molecule . . .” Science, “The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences,” October 13, 2000, p. 299.
“His death was itself memorably unusual.” Nature, September 27, 2001, p. 364.
“Up to this time, the oldest reliable dates . . .” Libby, “Radiocarbon Dating,” from Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1960.
“After eight half-lives . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Ice Age, p. 58.
“every raw radiocarbon date you read today . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, p. 174.
“it is like miscounting by a dollar . . .” Flannery, The Future Eaters, p. 151.
“just around the time that people first came to the Americas . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, pp. 174-75.
“whether syphilis originated in the New World . . .” Science, “Can Genes Solve the Syphilis Mystery?” May 11, 2001, p. 109.
“Unfortunately, he now met yet another formidable impediment . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 204.
“led him to create a sterile laboratory . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 58.
“a figure that stands unchanged 50 years later . . .” McGrayne, p. 173.
“a doctor who had no specialized training . . .” McGrayne, p. 94.
“about 90 percent of it appeared to come from automobile exhaust pipes . . .” Nation, “The Secret History of Lead,” March 20, 2000.
“The notion became the foundation of ice core studies . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 60.
“Ethyl executives allegedly offered to endow a chair . . .” Nation, “The Secret History of Lead,” March 20, 2000.
“Almost immediately lead levels in the blood of Americans . . .” McGrayne, p. 169.
“those of us alive today have about 625 times more lead in our blood . . .” Nation, March 20, 2000.
“The amount of lead in the atmosphere also continues to grow . . .” Green, Water, Ice and Stone, p. 258.
“forty-four years after most of Europe . . .” McGrayne, p. 191.
“Ethyl continued to contend . . .” McGrayne, p. 191.
“devouring ozone long after you have shuffled off.” Biddle, pp. 110-11.
“Worse, we are still introducing huge amounts of CFCs . . .” Biddle, p. 63.
“Two recent popular books . . .” The books are Mysteries of Terra Firma and The Dating Game, both of which make his name “Claire.”
“astounding error of thinking Patterson was a woman . . .” Nature, “The Rocky Road to Dating the Earth,” January 4, 2001, p. 20.
CHAPTER 11 MUSTER MARK’S QUARKS
“In 1911, a British scientist named C. T. R. Wilson . . .” Cropper, p. 325.
“if I could remember the names of these particles . . .” Quoted in Cropper, p. 403.
“can do forty-seven thousand laps around a four-mile tunnel . . .” Discover, “Gluons,” July 2000, p. 68.
“Even the most sluggish . . .” Guth, p. 121.
“In 1998, Japanese observers reported . . .” Economist, “Heavy Stuff,” June 13, 1998, p. 82; and National Geographic, “Unveiling the Universe, October 1999, p. 36.
“Breaking up atoms . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About
