What happened in the three and a half short years between October 2007 and April 2011?
Because of the short half life of radioactive iodine (8 days), in a month or so the water should be fine again.
It has a very short half-life, which in practical terms means that it goes in and out of the body very quickly.
From a molecular perspective, Lucentis was designed to stay in the eye and have a short half-life (two hours), while Avastin was designed to enter the circulatory system and to stick around to fight off cancer (a half-life of 20 days).
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But Leinster's pack continued to put Edinburgh under intense pressure in a turgid second half but fumbles just short of the line prevented a couple of tries.
While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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By analyzing measurements of 1207 RR Lyrae stars taken by the Catalina Mount Lemmon Telescope in Tucson, the team was able to observe dramatic brightness variations in these stars, taking place over periods as short as half a day.
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It also equaled half the total cash and short-term investments on those companies books.
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Indiana missed about five dunk attempts in the first half and a series of short jumpers, too, costing them precious points.
The interesting historical detective work, and some neat demolition of myths and conspiracy theories, bring Mr Fitzgibbons half-way through a short book.
Empowering women in Asia is an important step toward boosting overall economic growth (why give short shrift to half of your human resources?).
His half-point cut in short-term interest rates was designed to avoid a recession, but it may have bought him only a postponement of the inevitable.
Although Adshead holed out to David Sales off Brown four short of his half century, Taylor reached 100 when he cut Lance Klusener for three.
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New batsman James Bryant belted out an swashbuckling 72, but not before White had finally departed just short of his half century, trapped lbw by off-spinner Graeme Swann.
After easing beautifully to one short of his half-century, Bopara prodded forward at a ball nipping back in, only to see the bails tumble after an unlucky inside edge.
Rashid began the collapse by trapping Simmons leg-before for 63, won another decision as Chanderpaul fell one run short of a half century and had Brendan Nash caught for 19.
Second, the maturity profile of most countries' marketable government debt is relatively short: over half of America's and more than 40% of that of Germany, France and Italy matures within three years.
Opener McIntosh took 38 balls to get off the mark but once at the crease Flynn wasted little time in getting into his stride and by lunch he was two short of a half-century.
But, two runs short of his half-century, the New Zealand skipper offered no shot to a straight Sidebottom delivery that handed the Nottinghamshire seamer - out of sorts and wickless on Thursday - his remarkable figures.
Michael Hussey and James Hopes put on 50 for the sixth wicket before the former was yorked, four runs short of his half century, by Southee, who also claimed Mitchell Johnson in his next over to record his career-best return.
To confirm that this is so, Ms Welch stripped the eggs out of several females (not as horrible a process as it sounds), divided each batch of eggs into two, and inseminated half with sperm from a long-calling male and half with sperm from a short-calling male.
Lusty late blows from Mike Hussey - including a huge six into the third row of the top tier of the square leg boundary - bumped up the total, but the left-hander fell one run short of his half century when he drove a catch to Denly at mid-off.
And the opening half was wracked with tension and short on quality, inevitably given the stakes.
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As October ended, 19% of metal-workers were officially out of work, and half of those left were on short time.
Video ref Geoff Warren called a knock-on after Adam Jones was dragged down short and scrum-half Rhodri Wells attempted to ground the ball.
One reason that APWR could prove to be explosive on the upside is that more than half of its shares are sold short.
Digitimes is adding fuel to the fire today, claiming that HDD suppliers expect to be about 10 million units short for the second half of 2011.
Stewart fell four short of his third half-century this season, holing out to David Byas at mid-off trying to drive Mark Chilton after a partnership of 109.
They put on 101 before former West Indies paceman Tino Best finally made the breakthrough when he had Sales caught behind just one short of a deserved half-century.
And in nine days, in nine short days, nearly half the nation will have the chance to join us in saying that we are tired of business as usual in Washington.
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