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...E.S.P. Nor is it X-ray vision. Dr. Arthur Lintgen, 40, a suburban Philadelphia physician, cannot explain his bizarre talent. But he has it: the ability to "read" the grooves on a phonograph record and identify the music on it-with the label and other identifying marks covered, of course. Lintgen simply holds a disc flat in front of him, turning it slightly this way and that and peering along its grooves through his thick glasses. After a few seconds he calmly announces, as the case may be, ''Stravinsky's Rite of Spring," or "Strauss...
Jake's mother Helen (Frances Sternhagen) is a tyrant of the hearth. She has X-ray eyes, but she can discern no conceivable virtue in anyone who disputes her dictums about food, home furnishings and the proper cowing of a child. She has a deep-freeze heart, and Jake had been stored there until he could be thawed out by externally approved success at the newspaper. For Jake's mother and father, the Times is the Talmud...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...investment activity has made it much easier for clever entrepreneurs to raise money. Several months ago, two West Coast venture capital companies were ready to put up $3.5 million in exchange for a 60% stake in a new firm specializing in X-ray photo lithography, which is used in semiconductor manufacturing. Then a third company heard rumors of the impending deal, made a hurried study and offered the firm $7.5 million for only a 50% interest. It was eagerly accepted. Amgen, a genetic-engineering company founded by a molecular biology professor from U.C.L.A. and a vice president from Abbott Laboratories...
...room until the nurse ushers him into one of several treatment areas: a "crash room" equipped with cardiac defibrillators and respirators for the rare patients who arrive with serious problems, an orthopedic room equipped to deal with fractures and sprains, a "suture bay" for minor lacerations, or an X-ray room...