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Islanders did receive examinations at the Kwajalein Navy base, with doctors sending most of them back to their contaminated islands. People from the Utrik islands had received "small am-mounts of radiation (14 rads) and could therefore return home," Brookhaven National Laboratory doctors found. "Their island was only slightly contaminated and considered safe for habitation...
...Brookhaven doctors found that Marshallese food items from the contaminated and uninhabited Rongelap area have an "intake of strontium 90 over a seven day period [that] was twenty times higher than normal and that of cesium 137, sixty times higher than normal." Despite this information, government-sponsored examinations of islanders come only once every three years and only at certain islands. There are no centers established to deal with radiation - oriented symptoms...
...same flamboyance of spirit, the same belief that a crazy quilt of sweet dreams and common sense will somehow keep you warm through the night. Beth's father was a lawyer from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles. "I was sick with asthma. Spent a lot of time getting shots and laying in bed. At night, Mama'd come into...
...that extraordinarily expensive research do not promise specific technological advancements. Harvard and MIT closed their joint facility for high-energy research several years ago because of funding problems, and the University of Pennsylvania-Princeton laboratory was recently shut down for similar reasons. Two of the principal remaining facilities, at Brookhaven and Stanford, are now struggling to survive...
...scans to explore the brains of people suffering from schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and senile dementia. Their hope is that by scanning hundreds, even thousands, of patients with such conditions, distinctive patterns of biochemical activity will emerge, making diagnosis easier and more precise. Says Chemist Alfred Wolf of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island: "A diagnosis with cognitive tests, for example memory quizzes, takes days. The whole PET procedure takes under 90 minutes...