Word: gammas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the search must be conducted on the ground. Minivans are rented at the local airport, the backseats removed and replaced with electronic detectors that can sniff the neutrons and gamma radiation a nuclear device might emit. The vans, however, are only good for use in large open areas like parking lots and highways. To search narrow streets and buildings, as many as 100 two-person teams, dressed as inconspicuously as possible, are sent on foot patrols. One team member carries a special radiation detector designed to be hidden in briefcases, student backpacks, laptop computer bags--even beer coolers...
Walking down the corridors, Becky and her male partner looked like the typical tourist couple on vacation, dressed in Bermuda shorts and T shirts, cameras slung over their necks. But hidden in Becky's suitcase was a sophisticated sodium iodide crystal detector to sniff minute amounts of gamma radiation from as far away as another room...
...Long Beach, California, VA hospital discovered a benign tumor growing in his brain five years ago but decided he could not survive surgery to remove it because of a heart condition, which had required a quadruple by-pass operation. Fortunately, there was a life-saving alternative: he could undergo "gamma knife" radiation. The VA hospital didn't offer that particular treatment, but the nearby private Hospital of the Good Samaritan did. Winsick's VA doctors set out to arrange VA funding for Winsick's treatment there...
...community and I realized that if I wanted to have the broad mix of friends I was used to, I would need to join some kind of social organization. It was much later, in my junior year, that I met several spirited women, who were starting a sorority--Delta Gamma--and would up going Greek...
...Sara M. Mulholland '95, cohead of Delta Gamma, the younger of Harvard's two fledgling sororities, said that even when the Commons is finished, it will not substitute for the activities of a sorority...