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About 70% accurate, the gadget is admittedly less precise than mammography (90%) and only on a par statistically with infra-red thermography. But since there is no radiation risk and no need for a skilled X-ray interpreter to make an initial judgment, Sadowsky points out, the microwave detector could at the very least be used for prescreening women-especially those under 35 who are ordinarily not encouraged to have mammograms unless they have a family history of breast cancer or symptoms of the disease...
Subsequent research, while limited, tends to confirm Metheny's findings. During the 1960 Olympics in Rome, J.M. Tanner, a British doctor, conducted X-ray and photographic studies of athletes. Tanner too reported that blacks had longer limbs and narrower hips, which for a runner provides a longer stride. According to Edward Hunt, an anthropologist at Penn State University, blacks tend to have lighter trunks and heavier bones. The average black's lungs are a little smaller relative to body weight. Then, too, young blacks carry less body fat than white youths. These characteristics, combined with relatively larger limbs...
...implementation of a computerized X-ray technique, the CAT scan, constitutes a major breakthrough in research methods, New said yesterday...
This safe and painless method delineates the brain by feeding X-ray results into a computer, New added...
...high behind the actors to play on the backs of their heads, on and off like the metronome. Since the stage is otherwise dark, the actors' faces cannot be seen. They appear only in outline, like the images of film negatives; or through their partially transparent urns like X-ray pictures of skeletons. These images of emptiness, negatives and skeletons are stunning in combination with the orchestration of sounds...