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...Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Herbert Friedman, one of the world's foremost X-ray astronomers, estimates that budget cuts combined with inflation have reduced the effective level of his support by 40% in three years. Able to afford only half as many trainees as he had expected and with no new equipment...
Congress designed Medicaid as a patchwork program. Each state could join after its plan was approved by HEW. The minimum benefits, which every state must provide for all "public assistance" (meaning welfare) recipients, are 1) in-and out-patient hospital care, 2) other laboratory and X-ray services, 3) nursing-home treatment and physicians' services. The patient's eligibility depends on the state's definition of need. That may be anywhere between $2,448 family annual income, as in Oklahoma, and $5,000, in New York...
...show leaves out no detail concerning the sculpture. The poster and catalogue are decorated even with an x-ray of a bronze edition of jaunty Ratapoil. White lines indicate the density of the metal and tubular inner supports. It suggests the complexiy of the technical study done on each piece, while weaving its own oddly beautiful pattern...
...collection contains over 1000 books and more than 100 manuscripts, including nine letters of Dr. Wilhelm C. Roentgen, discoverer of the X-ray. It also includes an assortment of early scientific equipment, such as X-ray tubes dating back...
...Watson is trying to dupe the reader into thinking it was all so easy--so much easier than we know it was. He sets himself up as a kid scientist, still wet under the nose, making it because of a will to conquer DNA, despite his unpreparedness in chemistry, X-ray crystallography, and mathematics. He portrays the discovery as little more than the fitting together of the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, with one eye on the clock because Pauling is almost there...