Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles...
...these tracers produces only a low level of radiation and has a short "half-life" (the time in which it loses half of its remaining radioactivity). Technetium 99m, a common isotope used especially for detecting brain tumors, has one of only six hours, while fluorine 18, used in bone scans, is half decayed in less than two hours. Of greater concern are the isotopes used in laboratory tests. Among them: carbon 14, with a half-life of 5,750 years. A large hospital may conduct thousands of radioactive tests and procedures daily, including those with carbon 14, and produce enough...
There are "no serious injuries," Rod Walters, who plays second row, said. "We've had a dislocated shoulder and bone chips but injuries are few and far between," he continued...
Under conventional surgery for periodontal disease, dentists pull the gums back to expose the underlying bone, cleanse the area and replace the gums at a level that covers more of the diseased tooth, Williams said, adding the operation "is not very popular with patients...
...anti-biotics, however, may help to "slow down the rate of bone loss" that often necessitates surgery, Jeffcoat said...