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...Grieveson is an expert on American gangster movies, censorship, and silent films. But despite a distinguished career as a scholar of American films, this semester marks his first time teaching cinema to students in the U.S. Grieveson, current director of the graduate film studies program at University College London, will serve as Visiting Associate Professor in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department for one semester. He will spend his time at the College acclimating to the United States, continuing work on his latest book, and teaching two film courses—one on government and film...
...senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four hundred and one died; 91 who are still alive have experienced a recurrence of cancer...
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