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...weeks ago, Harold McCray of Mayo, Fla., signed a five-year agreement with Quality Holstein for 70 dairy cows. The herd cost him an initial cash outlay of only $6,000 rather than the $100,000 purchase price. McCray now expects to make $4 per day on each cow and receives as a bonus any offspring born during the lease. He also expects to exercise an option that would permit him to buy the cows at a discount when the contract expires in 1985. As long as credit money to farmers remains tight, Quality Holstein Leasing is likely...
Does exposure to medical X rays cause cancer, in particular leukemia, a form of the disease long known to be linked with radiation? Doctors have never been able to give a conclusive answer because they lacked records showing how much radiation patients had received. Last week researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that they have finally overcome this difficulty. Turning to the centralized medical records of Minnesota's Olmsted County, they compared the X-ray dosages of 138 people who developed leukemia between the years 1955 and 1974 and those of 276 other people...
...Mayo Mohs...
...Argentina, before, during and after Juan and Eva Perón: "There is no history in Argentina. There are no archives; there are only graffiti and polemics and school lessons. Schoolchildren in white dust coats are regularly taken round the Cabildo building in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to see the relics of the War of Independence. The event is glorious; it stands in isolation; it is not related, in the textbooks or in the popular mind, to what immediately followed: the loss of law, the seeking out of the enemy, endless civil wars, gangster rule...
...Pocket Harry, however, turned out to be anything but. During the summer, he disappeared into the library of the Mayo Clinic, where he had once been general counsel, to research the medical aspects of abortion. After he emerged, he wrote a broad opinion declaring that abortion, at least in the first trimester, was a matter for a woman and her doctor, not the state, to decide. That was hardly the reasoning Burger had hoped for. The Chief eventually added a cryptic concurring opinion arguing that the court's decision did not sanction ''abortion on demand...