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Julie Rodriguez, from Pueblo, Colo., had liver cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four...
Jarrell's last poems go straight at contemporary situations. He is displaced and dispossessed by the whirl of American culture and finds himself in 'The X-Ray Waiting Room in the Hospital...
...Navy ship may be able to tune in a device that can reproduce a three-dimensional image of an enemy submarine scores of fathoms below the surface. Or a brain surgeon may have at his fingertips the means to see, in 3D, a deep, tiny tumor that even modern X-ray techniques could not detect. Such far-out capabilities are now within reach thanks to Scientists Alexander Metherell, John Dreher, Lewis Laramore and Hussein El-Sum, of the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Advanced Research Laboratories at Huntington Beach, Calif. Last week, writing in the Journal of the Acoustical Society...
...well map the ocean floor in the same way. And at frequencies between 1 and 10 megacycles, diagnostic holograms may some day chart not only tumors, but soft areas of the body-such as muscles, blood vessels and brain tissue-that can not be usually seen with standard X-ray techniques...
...range of work seems limited only by the Peace Corps' collective imagination. Volunteers are in demand for more than 300 job categories, from agronomy, bacteriology and carpentry to X-ray technology and zoology. A team of corpsmen installed the University of Malaya's first electronic computer; one is a game warden in Ethiopia; Gerald Brown, a volunteer from Douglas, Ariz., conducts Bolivia's National Symphony orchestra, and Lynn Meena's televised English lessons made her one of Iran's most popular performers. The majority teach, and the Corps has even sent blind volunteers abroad...