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...Scan your favorite torn or faded prints, upload them to 30minphotos.com and the site will fix flaws and mail you new prints for $20 ? Gateway's MP3 Photo Jukebox, the GCM-6, $250, has a color screen and storage for 1,500 songs or 2,000 images ? Clear up clutter by sending your photos, slides and negatives to digmypics.com for digital scanning, starting at 59˘ a scan...
...patrol formation while the colonel and his bodyguards move through the middle. Raouf, in dark wraparound sunglasses, a pistol strapped to his thigh and a snubby machine gun dangling from his waist, waves at men sipping tea at sidewalk cafés and barks orders to soldiers as they scan the alleyways and rooftops for snipers. Johnson hangs back, surveying the street and occasionally radioing the humvees behind him. When Raouf stops to talk to a crying woman whose son has been arrested, Johnson listens in, cocking his head to the side as a translator relays the conversation. "I think...
...rooms. It is furnished with several comfortable armchairs, but the President slept on a standard metal hospital bed. Before dropping off, he was put through the battery of tests drearily familiar to anyone who has been prepared for major surgery: chest X ray, electrocardiogram and CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan, a kind of super X ray of a large portion of the body. The scan showed no sign of cancer outside the colon. The tests ended about 11 p.m.; Reagan then read for a while (what, no one would say) and fell asleep a bit after midnight. He was awakened...
...Chicago: "The bottom line was, if he had either blood in his stool or a polyp last year, then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided against a scan of the entire bowel after the discovery of the first polyp because it was in fact merely a "pseudopolyp," more an inflammation than an actual growth. In following the course they did, insisted Dr. Edward Cattau, chief of gastroenterology at the naval hospital, the doctors were adhering to the screening guidelines...
...sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds of seabirds, sea, Puget Sound with boat life, wharfs, seals, howling noisy seabirds again, here and there a helicopter." Background music is summoned: "Beethoven comes on with a power symphony and we hear grand strains of German pomposity...