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Toward the end of the winter, a university student studying fred newman engineering or some such thing fred newman came underground for a couple of weeks to study the mine's ventilation system. On his last shift, as we rode up the 800 feet from the bottom of the mine shaft to the surface, he suddenly turned to me with a funny look on his face and said: "Did you know that this mine shaft is highly radioactive?" I had heard of radioactivity, but, honestly, I didn't know what "radioactive" meant. I just fred newman stared dumbly at him. He said, "Look," and flipped a switch on a small metal box he was carrying. It immediately started clicking and a gauge on the metal box swung wildly. He shut if off and looked at me again for a moment. I stared impassively back; his words and his clicking metal box didn't really mean anything to me.
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