Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the flag that in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner is faded and deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes and letters, are rotting, to a Pittsfield theater that once saw performances by Sarah Bernhardt and John Philip Sousa but now houses a funky paint store...
...human hair, roots intact, that was found in a knit cap wrapped around a .38-cal. revolver connected with the murder. Ballistic tests suggest that the bullet that killed Cosby came from that gun, and DNA testing links the hair to MIKAIL MARKHASEV. One problem: when the L.A.P.D.'s lab technicians inspected the cap after it was found in March 1997, they found only "shed" hairs without roots; reliable DNA testing requires the root. Nine months later, after it became clear that the case would depend heavily on witnesses with criminal pasts or shaky memories and that physical evidence linking...
Sarah E. Henrickson '01, a biochemistry concentrator in Mather House, is working this summer in a lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, trying to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life...
...first stage at which my wife's exam would differ from mine would be at the cardiac-function lab. While she would have been given an electrocardiogram at rest, a stress test might have been ruled out. EKGs of women on the treadmill are notoriously inaccurate, frequently showing abnormalities where none exist. Instead, women are carefully questioned about family history that might reveal a disposition toward heart disease. Only if heart disease runs in the family would the clinic be tempted to run a stress test...
Another difference: every woman, pre- or postmenopausal, has a bone scan to determine evidence of osteoporosis, because of hormonal changes a very real threat to those in their 50s. Most men don't go to the bone-densitometry lab. I did so only because of the association between kidney stones and bone loss. Mild bone loss in both men and women begins in the late 20s. But with the onset of menopause, women begin losing 1% to 5% of bone mass each year...