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...Besides having her breasts examined manually and photographed by a heat-sensitive technique called thermography,* every participant in the screening program is annually subjected to mammography, or breast X rays. Although only an extremely low dose of radiation is required, a team of scientists under the leadership of Dr. Lester Breslow, a U.C.L.A. epidemiologist, nonetheless argues that it may well be enough to cause cancer. Mammography, Breslow insists, is "a striking example of a situation where the very disease may be caused by the technology...
That would be a dazzling rise for a man who entered politics a scant six years ago as a "gofer" (gofer coffee, gofer a newspaper, gofer the car). Raised on a farm in Vienna (pronounced Vy-anna), Ga., 35 miles east of Plains, Joseph Lester Powell Jr. entered the Air Force Academy in 1961-and was expelled three years later for cheating on a history exam...
...quite a few of George Wallace's diehard supporters remained dour at their favorite's demise. Lester Skinner, 57, a Gaffney, S.C., real estate broker, cast a reluctant vote for Carter only after looking his hero in the eye and asking him "if he really meant we should support Carter. He told me he really meant it." Skinner expects Wallace supporters to "follow George's advice and vote for Carter over Reagan" if the Californian is nominated...
...Talk Quality. Baptists have long claimed that sense of mission, one that transcends secular organization. Their ministers are as varied as former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox and former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, but no one conveys the Southern Baptist spirit more powerfully than Billy Graham, the Baptists' premier evangelist. His message is often one of sin and hellfire, but there is also a pep-talk quality that has encouraged millions. In his best-selling book, Angels, Graham conveys that quality when he writes: "Because our [spiritual] resources are unlimited, Christians will be winners. Millions of angels...
...HIID projects bolster Harvard's status as the world's most respected educational consulting and planning firm. Lester E. Gordon, HIID's director, says the institute "is tending away from large national planning projects toward sectoral projects in health, education, and urban and rural planning." But the conclusion remains inescapable--Harvard has, by any standards, become an international force to be reckoned with. The funding of Harvard's international projects--the $2-million Kenya agricultural deal currently in the works is a good example--is often itself international in scope. (In the Kenya project, the funding is coming from five...