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...Kaplan collaborated with Edward Ginzton in developing a 6-million-volt accelerator at the Stanford Medical Center, then in San Francisco. The device smashed atoms to produce high-dosage radiation that could be directed at various forms of cancer with much greater accuracy and effectiveness than older, lower-powered X-ray machines...
...Canada cannot wait that long to have at each other. They play the night before. Around the perimeter of the village, distant sentries are stationed, some sinking unobtrusively into the muck. Machine-gun-toting guards, so familiar now at world occasions, are omnipresent here, along with airport-style X-ray equipment. Moran says, "The athletes are hoping they don't have 'blanket detectors.' " Souvenir hunters are eyeing the covers. Bedding in Sarajevo is more brilliant than housing. But the homes are warm and the people are sweet. A woman in work clothes surprised by visitors while hanging...
Says M.I.T. Engineering and Computer Professor Jack Ruina: "I would compare it to going right from the kite stage to the 747." Years further off is the X-ray laser, which would be "bomb pumped," or powered by an internal nuclear explosion. Still more problematic are particle-beam weapons, which would fire streams of atomic particles...
...Jirménez, 31, had made his way to the hospital soon after watching the first paratroopers dropping from the sky near his home facing the stretch of wide white beach known as Grand Anse. He had been here ever since. The hospital, he said, had no X-ray machine, little oxygen on hand, and only five pints of blood...
...Watson himself produced a highly irreverent, gossipy bestseller, The Double Helix, which revealed the human story behind the discovery of DNA'S structure: the bickering, the academic rivalries, even the deceits that were practiced to win the great prize. From the X-ray crystallography laboratory at King's College in London, where Biochemist Maurice Wilkins was also investigating the molecule's structure, they quietly obtained unpublished X-ray data on DNA. Relying as much on luck as logic, they constructed Tinkertoy-like molecular models out of wire and other metal parts. To everyone's astonishment, they...