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...searching for a penny in a sandstorm. Radiologists look for specks of calcium no bigger than a grain of sand; in a certain pattern, the specks could indicate a tumor. The dense tissue of the breast, particularly in younger women, makes it difficult to isolate these spots on fixed X-ray film, so it's not surprising that doctors reading mammograms pick up only about 85% of the tumors that are there...
...Famous Monsters" covered it: the latest Vincent Price film, Japanese monster flicks, any flavor of Dracula or Frankenstein. There were stories on makeup, on directors, on actors, on special effects techniques. There was the "Fangmail" and the monthly "Horrorscope." The back of the book sold items like magic kits, X-ray glasses and Tor Johnson masks (the wrestler turned actor courtesy of Ed Wood and "Plan 9 From Outer Space"). It was fabulous. I was an instant...
...government's argument, curiously, is that it didn't learn anything through the thermal imaging. "Thermal imagers do not literally or figuratively penetrate the home and reveal private activities within," the U.S. Solicitor General's Office wrote in his brief. "Unlike a hypothetical sophisticated X-ray device or microphone that could perceive activity through solid walls - observations that would amount to searches - a thermal imaging device passively detects only heat gradients on exterior surfaces...
...argues the plaintiff, certainly did "reveal private activities within" - use of heat lamps, which led police to get a search warrant to look for drugs in Kyllo's attic. If evidence of an abnormal heat source constitutes probable cause, so would images of Kyllo - gained through a "hypothetical sophisticated X-ray device or microphone" - lighting up a joint...
...draw a line between a thermal imager wielded by a National Guardsman and a "hypothetical sophisticated X-ray device or microphone" seems difficult. Either it gathers evidence of what goes on behind the walls or it doesn't, and the thermal imager seems to meet that test. Certainly, it doesn't look as if Kyllo would have been arrested without...