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...positrons. A special machine takes simultaneous cross-section views of the heart from different angles; a computer reconstructs the images to give a three-dimensional picture of the heart. "It isn't in clinical use yet, but it's a valuable tool for sophisticated research," says Jeffrey Borer, a cardiologist at New York Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the No.1 Killer: Heart Disease | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...story clearly has been repeated and embellished. Raiffa last week received a telegram from Zurich reading, in part: "Last week, a well known columnist [Mseva Maria Borer] in a mass-circulation newspaper in Zurich wrote an article with the title "Lying Can Be Taught..."In the article she referred to your course on competitive decision making. The course section dealing with the strategy of deception was quoted as an example of the decadence of American society in general and the business world in particular. Teaching the youth and the future manager how to lie most effectively seemed...

Author: By Cecily Deegan and Stephen R. Latham, S | Title: The B-School vs. The Wall Street Journal | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer. Ironically, the corn has been so lush this year that sprays used to combat the worms do not fully penetrate the thick foliage. Pest controllers estimate that Maryland farmers could lose up to 75% of their corn crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bugs vs. Man, Beasts and Crops | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...animals are small marine wood-borer isopod crustaceans called Limnoria spp. There is one species of terrestial wood-borer crustaceans which also has a bacteria-free digestive tract...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: Two Harvard Biologists Find Animal With Bacteria-Free Gut | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

...death, Milan authorities launched a massive manhunt; some 60 neo-Fascist suspects were picked up and grilled. Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Neo-Fascism on Trial | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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