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Questioning the X-ray...
Norman L. Sadowsky, clinical instructor in Radiology, said yesterday. "The overall five-year cure rate for breast cancer is only an 18-per-cent chance that the patient will survive five years after treatment. If the tumor is detected early, however, usually through mammography, an X-ray of the breast, the five-year cure rate is about 90 per cent...
...fourth characteristic which psychologists attribute to the creative mind is the ability to make connections. Pauling utilized two widely separated area of science--x-ray deflection and quantum mechanics--to develop a theory of chemical bonding which revolutionized chemistry. Beardon, an artist, made connections between art and the jazz he grew up with in Harlem. The result: a new art form called "abstract expressionism...
...Government does not run on military and office equipment alone. Through the warehouse come potter's wheels, musical instruments, looms, stretchers, record players, 50-lb. boxes of nails, humidity gauges, bottles of chemicals, screwdrivers and pliers of every shape and size, salt-tablet dispensers, ear slugs, potato peelers, X-ray film projectors, buckets of paint, faucets, even 59 forceps for delivering babies...
...given tuxedo reception at Cannes, confidently announced as a "post-punk" tale, with stereo Dolby treatment, and followed by a blow-out reception, dubbed "event of the year" by some hyperbolic press bulletins. The film details the rise and fall of a London band (bearing many resemblances to X-Ray Spex), with street-found star Hazel O'Connor as leader of the idealistic group. She self-promotes on subways, takes on gigs at skinhead pubs and political rallies, and ends up with record contract and sold-out laser light shows. Phil Daniels, star of last year's Quad-rophenia, plays...