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...symptom of the atomic age, the $4,200,000 Argonne Cancer Research Hospital was opened in Chicago. Built with AEC funds, it will use all kinds of radiation, including giant X-ray machines and radioisotopes such as cobalt-60, to study cancer. Of its eight floors, two are below ground, only two are for patients (56 beds). Every employee must wear a badge that registers exposure to radiation...
...products about ready for the market. Among them: a new camera film so sensitive that it will take pictures by candlelight, and a quick-developing film for the Polaroid Land Camera that will take pictures in full color. Only last month Polaroid began shipping to commercial users an X-ray film that can be developed in one minute. It is already in wide use in Korea. With these, plus his glasses, Land thinks that Polaroid this year will once again boost sales...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...
Last week the surgeons were ready. They had already done a dozen operations and proved that the babies had separate brains and nervous systems, with no connecting arteries. But even with the most elaborate X-ray methods, there was no way for the doctors to know just what they would find when they opened the double skull...
...peculiarity of style revealed by the X-ray pictures: Caravaggio never bothered sketching in his figures before painting them; he worked directly with oils. The presence in the early versions of a few headless ears indicates that Caravaggio probably started with an ear when painting heads, using it as a guide in developing the proportions of the rest of the body...