Word: gamma
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...better or worse, the driving force behind that revolution is pure economics. Gamma-radiation knives, wondrous devices that focus tiny cobalt beams precisely on microscopic brain malignancies and malformations, cost $3 million each but may ultimately reduce the need for other costly therapies and thus afford a net saving to society. Sophisticated scanning devices--computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear-imaging systems--cost hospitals millions of dollars, and patients (or their insurers) are typically charged thousands for their use. But by pinpointing hard-to-find tumors and other signs of disease, these machines save invaluable time...
...would happen if we designed a drug that was 10 times better than Clozaril?" Mount Sinai's Davis, on the other hand, thinks future schizophrenia drugs might well be based on altogether different chemical-messenger systems. "There is evidence that schizophrenics have abnormalities in two very common neurotransmitters, gaba [gamma-aminobutyric acid] and glutamate," he says. "None of the current drugs do anything for the most incapacitating symptom of schizophrenia, the cognitive deficits. Maybe it's time to get off the dopamine merry-go-round we've been on for 40 years...
...Destruction of Self: The Poetry of Olga Orozco"; David E. Benjamin '96 for "Report From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History"; Manjul Bhargava '96 for "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings"; Joshua S. Bloom '96 for "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes"; and Cliff W. Chiang '96 for "'If answerable Style I Can Obtain...': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost...
COLOR PHOTO: REMI BENALI--GAMMA LIAISON FOR TIME Princeton's John DiIulio warns of "superpredators...
Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...