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Their ventures into social topics focus on alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, adultery, divorce, illegitimacy, crime, and urban decay.
Multiexponential fits show that the first decay phase has a time constant of 4 μs, in good agreement with the 4-μs rise time of the 400 nm signal (Fig.
The strangest of these is the claim by his contemporaries that Alexander's corpse did not decay for several days--an assertion usually written off as myth.
Periodontal disease was not understood, and decay was rampant.
Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.