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...chairman of the committee is Jack P. Ruina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences. The two Harvard members are Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and an expert in X-ray astronomy, and Richard L. Garwin, professor of Public Policy and a specialist in particle physics. The White House has refused to confirm the identities of committee members, and asked committee members not to comment on its findings...
...held for LAMPF, the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. There, one of the most powerful linear proton accelerators in existence is using a particle called a pion to treat certain cancers. Because of the technique's pinpoint accuracy, it is a possible substitute for dreaded cobalt and X-ray therapy...
...node removed shortly after his arrival at the hospital, they announced that the cancer centered in the Shah's neck had grown. They recommended that the monarch, who has not sufficiently recovered from the removal of his gall bladder to undergo chemotherapy, begin a four-week course of X-ray treatments. With this and other therapy, the Shah's prospects are encouraging; unless they are killed by the chemotherapy, which involves doses of potentially toxic drugs, many lymphoma victims survive up to ten years after diagnosis...
...continuing anguish that they say they are simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury may be even worse. You can't X-ray it, but the injuries are real...
With an earthly mystery of such proportions on its hands, the White House called a two-day meeting to which it invited X-ray astronomers, satellite technologists and stratospheric physicists. The White House cautioned the world not to expect a quick answer. In the first place, it will take the scientists at least two or three weeks to reach some conclusions...