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...Senator much of a chance of having a respectable showing in Iowa. "The people that come out of here are going to be the ones that beat the expectations that [the media sets], it could be four people, it could be three people," Biden told TIME on Monday. "The plain old politician in my fingertips tells me that we're going to do well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Biden Defy the Iowa Odds? | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

...fall down and break something, they will take an X-ray at the emergency room. Show up with belly pain or breathing trouble and the same kind of X-ray - what we call a plain film - will usually be done. The reason we like plain films so much is that they're fast, easy, cheap and effective - and they expose patients to very little radiation. So little, in fact, that it's extremely hard (some experts say impossible) to demonstrate statistically that the radiation from an X-ray increases your risk of cancer. There's no question that X-rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding Unnecessary CT Scans | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

Thirty years back we used plain films to diagnose nearly everything - appendicitis, kidney stones, pneumonia, broken bones - and an X-ray alone was enough. We took care of them all just using plain films. Today, however, there's a good chance that after ordering up that plain film, the emergency doctor will send you down the hall for a second test - one that exposes you to many hundreds of times the radiation of a plain film: a CT scan. The radiation from a CT scan, or computed tomography, actually has been shown to cause cancer - quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding Unnecessary CT Scans | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT? The undisturbed wreck is 70 ft. (21 m) off an island in the Dominican Republic under 10 ft. (3 m) of clear water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...Bawa's impact on Asian architects - Sri Lankan Milroy Perera, Singaporean Mok Wei Wei and many others documented by Robson - is certainly plain to see. All have adapted the basic regionalist Bawa style, which Bawa only loosely outlined. First, he wrote in a 1968 article, "a building must, at the very least, satisfy the needs that gave it birth, both physical and spiritual." Second, it "must be in accord and in sympathy with the ambience [of its setting]." And "there must be a knowledgeable and true use of the materials with which you build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord of the Jungle | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

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