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Arms locked out in front of me, I sweep my .357 semiautomatic pistol back and forth across the panicked passengers. My heart is thumping wildly, my breathing too rapid. Fighting the tunnel vision that comes from fear, I try to remember to scan the plane for threats. Just seconds earlier, I had heard the first bloodcurdling yell--"They're stabbing people back here...
...made big news. "We now have the potential to be able to tell a woman how fast her biological clock is ticking," Wallace said. On average, women reach menopause at the age of 50, but variation by seven or eight years either way is common. The new technique - a scan of the ovaries and a set of charts to read off the result - can pinpoint that variation. For women seeking fertility treatment, that knowledge is a key factor; for those pondering the career vs. motherhood equation, the question just got a little simpler: "Have you had your Wallace-Kelsey...
...scan quite possibly saved his life. Freilich is convinced he has helped save many others in the past two years. So what do health authorities think of precautionary whole-body CT scans? They'd be all for them, right? Wrong. In fact, numerous medical bodies oppose them, and the New South Wales government, which recently brought down stringent regulations for operators, shares their skepticism. Partly as a result, Total Health Screening is the only place in the state (indeed, in Australia or New Zealand) known still to be offering the service. Business is slow, raising the possibility that whole-body...
Opponents make three broad arguments, the simplest of which concerns radiation. In its just-published position paper on whole-body scanning, the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine estimates that subjects receive between 10-20 millisieverts of radiation per scan - a "non-trivial" dose, especially if the person has regular scans. (Nuclear facility workers are limited to an annual radiation dose of 30-50 mSv.) N.S.W. licensing laws require operators to explain to patients that "persons under the age of 50 years are more at risk of developing cancers as a result of the procedure...
...answers such questions with gusto ... [It is] the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fastests and slowests ... Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter ... [They] comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in 110 countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points ... And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...