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...Machinery designed to detect flaws in nuclear warheads will soon be turned to more benign use: finding early signs of breast cancer. Digital X-ray systems developed at Lawrence Livermore weapons lab should spot tiny tumors that the old film-based X-ray machines miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Oct. 18, 1993 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

COURTROOM CARNAGE Federal judges have been so jittery about courthouse crime that since the early '80s, most federal courts have been outfitted with airport-style X-ray machines, designed to detect concealed weapons. Even so, the bloodletting continues. On Aug. 6, a man scheduled to be sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in the Safety Zone | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...those cases, the Boston bomb squad was called in to x-ray the packages, while Cambridge bomb technicians handled yesterday's incident alone...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: False 'Mail Bomb' Brings Authorities To Holyoke Center | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

According to Harvey D. Tananbaum, director of the AXAF Science Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the advanced X-ray astrophysics facility (AXAF) allows physicists to produce images of objects which cannot be differentiated by other telescopes...

Author: By Virginia V. Iriani, | Title: The Other Shuttle | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...following years, Murray fine-tuned the transplant procedure, examining the various methods of acquisition of organs and the prevention of an immunologic response against the donated organ. In particular, he studied drug and X-ray treatments as methods of modifying the body's response to foreign tissue...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Nobel Winner Murray Recalls Med School | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

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