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...X-ray technician at UHS once told me, "Stay away from that rugby--it's euphoric, but it keeps me in business...
...Department Correspondent John Mulliken, who has gone on three major journeys with the Secretary of State since September and contributed to this week's cover story, notes that a day of shuttle diplomacy often starts at 4 a.m. That is the hour that baggage must be ready for X-ray examination by the Secret Service. On board the plane, Kissinger routinely briefs correspondents but rarely allows himself to be quoted directly. "Of course," says Mulliken, "no one is fooled by the titles that are used in dispatches - a 'high U.S. official' or 'senior officials...
Every year of her life, Brenda, 13, had been coming to St. Louis' Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, to have kidney tests. Terrified that new X-ray pictures would show her chronic condition to be getting worse, she lay rigidly on the examining table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that...
...after the discoverer of X rays) in the corridor leading to the radiology unit. Bare hospital walls were covered with giant murals of characters from children's books and television programs-Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown and his friends, and the Flintstones. The X-ray machine was labeled "Batman's Superanalyzer," and nurses were given brightly colored smocks...
Schmitt pioneered the use of X-ray diffraction and polarization optics to explore the inner workings of cells, and studied molecular biology before the term was invented. Head of the team that was first in the U.S. to use an electron microscope for studying biological tissues, he is also well known for his work on collagen, the clear protein material that fills the spaces between cells...