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...member radiation protection group is one of EHS's busiest. It is responsible for overseeing the approximately 2700 Harvard workers who deal with radioactive material or X-ray machines. The group deals particularly frequently with researchers who are working on cancer related projects in Harvard's labs and teaching hospitals. It also watches over such matters as the disposal of radioactive wastes, the training of approximately 500 people annually to deal with radio-iodine materials and accident investigation...
Students at Stanford University are seething over a proposal advanced earlier this year by the federal government to involve the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) in research on the production of nuclear weapons and X-ray lasers...
...more coke. And then more. That is why several times last year Phil stood quivering and feverish in the living room, his loaded pistol pointed toward imaginary enemies he knew were lurking in the garage. Rita, emaciated like her husband, had her own bogeymen?strangers with X-ray vision outside the draped bedroom window?and she hid from them in the closet. The couple's paranoia was fleetingly sliced away, of course, as soon as they got high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita...
This personal world of housecalls and stethoscopes in black bags is gone. "Instead of spending forty-five minutes listening to the chest and palpating the abdomen, the doctor can sign a slip which sends the patient off to the X-ray department for a CT scan," Thomas observes, continuing later that "the doctor can set himself, if he likes, at a distance, remote from the patient and the family, never touching anyone beyond a perfunctory handshake as the first and only contact...
Another piece of equipment of great use to the Center's researchers is the X-ray machine. Several years ago petroleum magnate Armand Hammer sent a Rembrandt entitled "Juno" to be inspected. The painting depicts the wife of Zeus holding a staff. X-ray surprisingly revealed that Rembrandt originally painted Juno empty-handed and with her arms down...