> One very sweet old lady used to regularly call the United States 
> Food and
> Drug Administration clearly very concerned that the tin foil she'd 
> wrapped
> around her TV might not be able to contain the dangerous radiation.
> Persistent, but always polite, she wanted to know the status of 
> research
> into a better material.
>
> Alas, the bureaucrats routinely treated her with distain and 
> arrogance.
>
> The striking thing was that her fear was genuine and probably 
> painful to
> her.

Radiation shielding failures in TV sets are not unknown fwiw. Colour 
TVs (ie about all these days) with their high EHT voltages can produce 
some very useful X-Rays indeed.


            RM

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