Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia (M.I.T. Press; $3.95), the guide is a boon to tourists and may open Philadelphian eyes as well. Instead of starting with the usual panegyric to Founder William Penn, it begins with three pages of maps of major streets, bus routes and the subway system-the city's bone structure. The guide duly describes and portrays such Philadelphia splendors as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the old residential area of Society Hill, the Beaux Arts vistas of Ben Franklin Parkway. But the authors always remind the reader that there is a lot of ordinary, gritty...
Restic will go with the same offensive lineup that he used against BU last week. Steve Sanvely will start at center, flanked by Bob Kircher and Doug Criss at the guards. The tackles will be manned by Tim Manna and Bil Ferry, Jeff Bone, coming off a solid performance last week, will be the wide receiver, and John Hagerty will hold down the tight end spot...
...last, after decades of a reputation for head cracking and bone crushing, we are no longer looking for a fight. Hardhats are looking for a leader. From a labor point of view, Nixon and McGovern clearly do not qualify...
...Doctors have always had trouble detecting hairline bone fractures; the fine cracks, most commonly found in the hip and hand, often fail to show up in X-ray pictures. Now the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center has taken the process used to improve the quality of television pictures from the moon and applied it to X-ray photography. The researchers place a conventional X-ray picture in a facsimile transceiver similar to the machine used to transmit wirephotos; there it is "read" by a photoelectric cell and the information fed into a computer programmed...
...survival rate for patients with bladder cancer increased from 48% to 62% during the period covered by the study; for breast cancer, from 63% to 72%; for cancer of the cervix, from 53% to 63%. Improvements were also shown for cancers of the thyroid, prostate, larynx, brain, skin and bone...