Word: x-rayed
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...Westernization are everywhere. The front platforms of the streetcars are adorned with Coca-Cola signs, beneath which yellow-robed monks ride lest they be contaminated by the presence of women inside the cars. Every tenth shop on New Street (one of the oldest thoroughfares) seems to be an X-ray shop. The Siamese are the most X-raying people in the world. They go to a doctor, then rush to have an X-ray to see if the doctor guessed right...
...most parts of the U.S., doctors can do nothing about the haphazard use of X-ray fitting machines in shoe stores (TIME, Sept. 19) except denounce it as dangerous. But in Washington last week the District of Columbia's Commission on Medical Licensure tried a neat trick: it banned use of the machines except by licensed operators-and no shoe-store clerk could qualify for a medical operator's license...
Face-lifters are not the only targets of Los Angeles' litigious patients. Radiologists (because of the danger of X-ray burns) and general surgeons (tackling serious and often risky operations) are under steady legal fire. So are obstetricians and neuro-psychiatrists...
...hours visiting the children and checking on such details as charcoal for the kitchen stove and nylon sutures for the operating room. Though the government pays the hospital's 22 doctors and 14 nurses, Benny buys what he calls the "extras"-a child-size operating table, modern X-ray equipment, new washing machines for the laundry. All told, he has spent some $500,000-and made the 125-bed hospital just about the best in Central America...
When the fattened-up electrons are making their last turn around the tube, they are deflected by special magnets and made to strike a tungsten target, knocking out of it a slender beam of enormously powerful X rays. In effect, a betatron is an outsized X-ray tube; the X. rays are its desirable product...