Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phosphorus-32 and a Geiger counter this too, is relatively easy. _ One of the most difficult problems facing cancer specialists and brain surgeons is the diagnosis and location of brain tumors. Now a team of doctors claims to have reached 95% accuracy in pinning down the tumor site with the aid of a dye tagged with iodine-131. Other doctors have not been able to get as good results so the search goes on. Boston's Dr. Abraham S. Freedberg is encouraged by the way radioactive rubidium (a rare trace element in the body) concentrates in the tumor more...
...including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
French Morocco is the site of the latest American invasion, peaceful but hectic, bringing airmen and planes and contractors with millions of dollars to spend...
...Unfinished Three. Some of the blame belongs to the Air Force, and its costly indecision in choosing a site for the largest of the five bases. First it was persuaded by the French to settle on Ben Guerir, in the rocky flatlands at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Then the Air Force switched the site to a place called Mechra Bel Ksiri, where $120,000 was spent before it was learned that Mechra Bel Ksiri is flooded for part of each year. Now the work is going forward again at Ben Guerir...
...University has already begun investigating the possibilities afforded by various buildings for a rifle range. Perhaps it may turn out that the Squash Courts basement is not a feasible site, but in that case we hope that a good substitute is found. For eventually the National Rifle Association is bound to condemn the present site, and the University might as well find a suitable new location now as later...