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...picked up the first X-ray emissions from outside the solar system. But until this year, only one additional visible object had been definitely identified as an X-ray producer: the familiar Crab Nebula.* Though their relatively crude instruments sensed X rays from about two dozen other vaguely defined areas of the sky, astronomers have been un able to tell which, if any, of the known celestial bodies were producing them. Now X-ray astronomy seems to be coming of age. The strongest X-ray source has been located and identified as a visible object, a previously photographed but seemingly...
...educational institution in the Middle East. It was the first Arab university to offer coed classes, although some women until the '30s wore veils and were escorted to class by male relatives. A.U.B. operated the first (1905), and still the best, teaching hospital in the Moslem world, introduced X-ray equipment in 1899, and open-heart surgery in 1959. The most visible evidence of its impact, however, has been the quality of its graduates. When the founding conference of the United Nations met in San Francisco in 1945, among the Arab representatives were 19 A.U.B. graduates. Today its alumni...
...referral, but rather to describe the fact that groups of doctors tend to cluster in hospitals, in clinics and in professional buildings, and they do so because their needs are interdependent. It is not that each is dependent upon the other, but rather that each needs certain common services--x-ray, laboraory...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...
...interest on savings and lending at 20%, Father Dan's union paid 6%, loaned at 12%. Before long, the villagers were depositing what cash they had in the union. In its first two years it loaned $150,000, which brought the town, among other items, its first X-ray machine and modern dental equipment. Convinced that there was no "better way for the people to help themselves," Father Dan criss-crossed Peru by Jeep, plane and riverboat, set up more nonprofit unions. To date, his unions have loaned a total of $59 million for purchases of everything from outboard...