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...Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters' 47 acres of oats were green and blowing, an inch or so high, in a wind that made people pile on jackets...
Atomic Doodling. So far, only a few scientists connected with the Manhattan Project have been allowed to experiment freely with the pile's products. But outsiders, letting their imaginations soar, have dreamed up many uses: one possibility, a radioactive lamp that might glow for months or years...
Some substances in the pile" give off gamma rays (X rays). Scientists see no reason why they should not be used to take pictures of infected teeth or flaws in steel castings...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...
...children's father but their "elder brother." He dyed his hair and beard. He replaced his aging friends with younger men. He made a bonfire of all the letters he had kept, exclaiming as they blazed: "Would to God every letter I had ever written was on that pile...