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Bone to Blood. Current interest is focused on two isotopes of indium and gallium. At Ohio State University, Radiologists William W. Hunter Jr. and Xavier J. Riccobono worked with indium Ill, which was produced in the campus cyclotron. Using a special scanner, they found that the radioisotope concentrated heavily in bone in the first 24 hours after intravenous injection. As a result, X-ray photographs taken after the first day tended to reveal bone cancer. Even better, the radioactive molecules then joined proteins in the blood, concentrating in young, fast-growing tumors, thus revealing the sites of other cancers...
Guilty Operator. Other promising targets for attack include post offices that use computerized mail sorters and telephone operators who insist that customers place their own long-distance calls with a computerized dialing code. Matusow advises pasting stamps on sideways so that the scanner cannot read the magnetized strips that differentiate between values of stamps. In persuading telephone operators to handle calls personally, he suggests saying: "I'm sorry, operator, but I'm blind and do need your assistance." That ploy "is bound to make her feel extremely guilty, and will make it easier for the next caller...
...carry millions of bits of electronic information. That film has led to an even more startling breakthrough. Goldmark and his colleagues have managed to treat black-and-white film with electronic color codes so that it will reproduce full-color images. When the coded film passes through a special scanner, the colors are electronically retrieved for viewing on the TV screen. The discovery of this cheap color film is likely to stir a revolution in the motion-picture industry and may someday give every amateur the resources of color-movie photography at drugstore prices...
...Viet Nam. The setting sun bathed the clouds in orange as the pilot, Major John Thigpen, 38, of Windsor, N.C., banked his B-52 into the bomb run. Below him, on the lower deck, the bombardier-navigator, Major Leonard Harris, 39, of Atlanta, hunched behind his radarscope, adjusting the scanner, like a television cameraman, until it gave him a moving, living map of partially cloud-obscured plantation country northwest of Saigon. Under that cover was the target, a suspected troop concentration. Everything had to go right the first time. The slightest navigational error up here could mean a horrendous mistake...
...American Bankers Asso ciation and the Association of Stock Exchange Firms are working on a scheme to imprint on all stocks a magnetic number identifying the issuer; the number could be read by an optical scanner hooked to a computer. The real solution is to get rid of the old-fashioned certificates entirely. Last week N.Y.S.E. President Robert W. Haack promised to do just that. "We are going to automate the stock certificate out of business by substituting a punch card," he said. "We just can't keep up with the flood of business unless...