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...idea came out of left field. Electrical engineer Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
That is, until Nutt and Townsend had their epiphany in the Alps. Last October the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of a combination PET/CT machine, the first medical-imaging device that simultaneously and clearly reveals both anatomical details and metabolic processes within the body. By early next year the new scanners will be installed at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Indiana University, the University of Iowa and other medical facilities...
...here will be familiar names to museumgoers. On the other hand, the outsiders are mostly unknown or recognizable by name only. A few, like the visionary landscapist Joseph Yoakum (1886- or 1888-1972), have risen to minor fame through the admiration of other artists -- in his case, again, via Nutt and his friends in the Hairy Who group in Chicago in the '60s. Others are better known in Europe than in the U.S. These include Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the near illiterate peasant schizophrenic whose stupendously complex drawings of imaginary terrains, buildings and cities, infinite in their ramifications of detail...
Even so, many of the great Dane's stories have remained in the repertoire because, as Isak Dinesen once observed, he "can be so indescribably simple and touching . . . he is a great magician." Andersen's grandest illusion takes place in The Ugly Duckling (Knopf; $10.95). Illustrator Robert Van Nutt begins by using a primary-school palette. But as the duckling sheds its down and acquires an elegant neck, the dominant hue changes to a formal white, reflecting Andersen's change of mood. The story is sometimes read as a revenge play, but Van Nutt makes it clear that he regards...
...Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee: "Deregulation poses the greatest threat to the continued existence of a network of small and medium-size community banks. The claims [by the large banks] that deregulation is as good as ice cream and apple pie are beginning to wear thin." Donald Nutt, president of Baldwin State Bank ($25 million) in Baldwin City, Kans., frets about depersonalization. Says Nutt: "It's easy for the big banks to lose the human touch...