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...labs approached the clinic, eleven with lucrative offers. If the doctor referred patients to them, they promised, he would get ample compensation. Among the inducements: they would give him 50% in kickbacks; they would give his private patients free tests; they would pay his secretary's salary, provide X-ray equipment and even include electrical and plumbing services. There was little, in short, they would not do to get their hands on Medicaid funds...
...pull a few dead leaves from a bouquet of flowers on the table. His face is somewhat puffy, his sensitive eyes watery at times, his neck baggy now under the thrusting jaw. But at 64, he looks fit -surprisingly so. Three years ago, Humphrey underwent a series of debilitating X-ray treatments for a bladder tumor that seemed precancerous. He had a severe reaction to the treatments and was flown from Waverly back to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. One staffer says he thought Humphrey was surely going to die. Blood transfusions and rest brought him back fast, and his doctors...
Traditional metal-detecting devices sometimes fail to spot modern bombs, which often have nonmetallic, acid-filled starters. The new devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...
...supports for milk. Like Nixon, Humphrey ran into tax trouble when he tried to take a sizable deduction for the donation of his vice-presidential papers. He was required to pay an additional $240,000 to the U.S. Government. In addition, Humphrey had to undergo a series of debilitating X-ray treatments in 1973 for a tumor on the bladder; apparently he has fully recovered...
Deadly Radiation. Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto wondered what kind of a weapon could have wrought such havoc on his city. But unlike most, he had an idea. On the second day after the explosion, he had some X-ray plates brought up from the hospital's storeroom, still in their lead case. When he found that all of them had been fogged, he remembered an article he had once read in a science magazine and concluded that his city had been hit by an atom bomb...