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...leukemia, the researchers were still at a loss. But there was no doubt about effects. The National Cancer Institute's Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after...
...limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell count has dropped below the critical trillion-a matter of weeks or months. Then they can go home, to be watched over and given further treatment by a doctor who needs no more resources than his own community hospital, provided he keeps in touch with the center's specialists...
...planets inhabited by advanced civilizations. Yet distances between stars are so vast-the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years in diameter-that these civilizations are probably separated from one another by anywhere from 300 to 1,000 lightyears, Sagan estimates (a light-year is the equivalent of 6 trillion miles). This deflates the argument of urologists that saucers have begun observing the earth because of man's recent technological strides. High-powered, high-frequency radio-wave transmissions, presumably the only clear evidence of terrestrial civilization that could penetrate the atmosphere and be detected at great distances, began only...
...salvage them. Chicago's Hauser figures that an additional $20 billion a year in federal funds over the next decade should do the job; Harvard Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew sets the sum at $25 billion a year; the Senate's Ribicoff subcommittee puts it at a neat $1 trillion. That kind of money, of course, even over a long period, does not come easily-nor is it all that easy to spend it wisely...
...light-years away, compared with only 500 light-years for Sco XR-1. The quasar's actual X-radiation is thus about one billion times that of Sco XR-1, the scientists calculate, and 500 times as powerful as that of M 87, a galaxy consisting of a trillion stars...