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Word: lithotriptor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compete for air time with lurid tales of bribes, kickbacks and a bogus kidney- stone machine. Most of the stories focused on an FBI agent, posing as a businessman, who waved cash in front of NASA employees at Houston's Johnson Space Center to interest them in a "lithotriptor" -- a device that dissolves kidney stones with ultrasound. While such devices do exist and might actually serve a purpose in space (where kidney stones can develop in weightlessness), this one was just a box filled with lights and wires -- and the NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, Back on Earth . . . | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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