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...Focused Beam. Dr. Baronofsky, 42, figured out a way of using irritation, but without the knife. X rays, in properly adjusted doses, cause transient irritation without doing actual damage. Tests with hundreds of dogs showed that survival rates jumped fourfold or better after an artificially simulated heart attack, if the animals were irradiated. Then some were killed, and dissection of their hearts showed that small artery branches had multiplied...
...Baronofsky selected patients who were in no shape to withstand surgery. Working with Surgeon Elliot Senderoff and Radiologist John Boland, he focused an X-ray beam through the chest walls onto the heart muscle itself, in three or more treatments over a two-week period. By now the group has treated 28 patients and seen no ill effects, but encouraging signs that in the human subjects, as in the dogs, small coronary branches have increased and carried a bigger load...
...educated crystals may be microscopically small or as big as quarters, and they can do many different electronic jobs. Some are sensitive to light, and will turn on a car's headlights when the beam of a flashlight falls upon them. Others can generate alternating currents, turn them into direct currents at a different voltage. They can also serve as the electrically controlled switches that are used as thinking units in computers...
...cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time on a wide and sullen river during a hunt for crocodiles. The searchlight's beam picks up the two glowing, red eyes of a crocodile on the river bank. From a distance of three yards the hunter fires and the crocodile's head explodes. The still twitching saurian is hauled aboard, and one of Nadine Gordimer's hearty women, a guest...
...took off from Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base to hover over the target area. Two Navy recovery ships patrolled the ocean below in case none of the Boxcars managed to hook the parachute. Like its predecessors, the Discoverer VIII capsule was designed to float, flash lights and beam directional radio signals to guide the search...