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  2. Rubidium-82 - Wikipedia

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    Rubidium-82 (82 Rb) is a radioactive isotope of rubidium. 82 Rb is widely used in myocardial perfusion imaging. This isotope undergoes rapid uptake by myocardiocytes, which makes it a valuable tool for identifying myocardial ischemia in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. 82 Rb is used in the pharmaceutical industry and is marketed as ...

  3. Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Home rule in the United States. Home Rule in the United States. Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless ...

  4. GBU-57A/B MOP - Wikipedia

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    The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force. [2] It is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. It is designed to accomplish a difficult ...

  5. Public employee pension plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, the funded ratio had declined to 82.1%. While funds did mostly recover by 2008, the Great Recession resulted in funded ratios declining to 63.8% in 2009. Over the following decade, funding levels improved over 2009’s all-time low, until the Covid-19 pandemic ushered in an era of unprecedented market volatility.

  6. Federal Employees Retirement System - Wikipedia

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    Most new federal employees hired on or after January 1, 1987, are automatically covered under FERS. Those newly hired and certain employees rehired between January 1, 1984, and December 31, 1986, were automatically converted to coverage under FERS on January 1, 1987; the portion of time under the old system is referred to as "CSRS Offset" and only that portion falls under the CSRS rules.

  7. Fact sheet - Wikipedia

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    A factsheet or fact sheet, also called fact file, is a single-page document containing essential information about a product, substance, service or other topic. Factsheets are frequently used to provide information to an end user, consumer or member of the public in concise, simple language. They generally contain key safety points, operating ...

  8. Fracking is being forced onto some Ohio property owners' land ...

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    When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...

  9. Child pornography laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, child pornography is illegal under federal law and in all states and is punishable by up to life imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000. U.S. laws regarding child pornography are virtually always enforced and amongst the insane in the world. The Supreme Court of the United States has found child pornography to be ...