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...pain in the lower right abdomen, and 15% to 40% of all appendectomies prove unnecessary because the appendix turns out to be normal. The new technique uses a radioactive tracer that binds to an infection-fighting white blood cell. Doctors locate the tracer using an imaging device called a gamma camera. In trials, the technique diagnosed nearly 100% of appendicitis cases within an hour. The tool may also be able to pinpoint hard-to-locate infections in other tissues. --By David Bjerklie
There has also been a proliferation of female social groups on campus. This year a new sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, joined the two existing campus sororities, Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma. Other female social clubs—many of which have been established in the last few years—include Isis, Seneca, Bee, Pleiades and Sabliere Society...
...part, I played Pegora the Witch in a children’s show of the same name. This character was a sweet, wholesome witch-in-training who has trouble pegging the role of the wicked witch because she is too nice. My other character, Ruth in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was this very disturbed, manipulative girl who on one hand was extremely scared and vulnerable, but on the other hand took a perverse joy in emotionally injuring people. In start contrast to Pegora, she was also prone to nightmares and seizures...
...creator of the work, and you can often have more freedom, but famous playwrights generally tend to write tighter plays. How drained I feel after a performance depends on the show. Definitely all shows leave you a little tired, but some more so than other. The Effect of Gamma Rays for example was quite draining, physically involving a lot of screaming and running across stage and having convulsions and mentally requiring me to get inside the mind of a seriously disturbed girl for eighteen performances! Musicals and children’s shows are also physically extremely exhausting, involving...
...black tea on 11 healthy nontea drinkers and compared them with 10 healthy people who began drinking coffee. The researchers found that drinking 600 ml of tea every day for at least two weeks doubled or tripled the immune system's output of an infection-fighting substance called interferon gamma. The coffee drinkers registered no difference in interferon-gamma production. Apparently the body metabolizes the tea into molecules that mimic the surface proteins of bacteria, jump-starting the immune system so that when real bugs show up, they can more easily be dispatched. But keep in mind that although...