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...accepted observation in Texas-where observations are made at the drop of a Stetson-that all you need to stir up a devil-duster is a little bit of wind. The wind started to blow when Dallas Morning News Columnist Frank X. Tolbert allowed as how it was curious that Denison-born Dwight D. Eisenhower had given Tyler as his birthplace when he enrolled at West Point...
Patients are getting worried about X rays. Following the National Academy of Sciences' Report to the Public on the biological effects of radiation (TIME, June 25), more and more people have begun to nag doctors and dentists about possible harmful effects. Many have flatly refused to submit to X-ray examination or treatment. Just how safe-or dangerous-are X rays...
Dental. The average dental X ray now delivers 5 r., but this is only to the jaw: the "scatter" radiation reaching the gonads from this is a mere .005 r. in a man and .001 r. in a woman. It would thus take 2,000 X rays to deliver a presumably damaging 10 r. to a man's gonads. Even so, notes the Journal of the American Dental Association, the currently used 5-r. doses are unnecessary. In the same issue, Radiologist Lewis E. Etter of Pittsburgh tells dentists how (by using higher voltages, better filters, faster films, shorter...
...when active, a double line when passive. Thus i is to see, II to be seen. A dot before the verb line indicates the past tense, a dot behind the line the future. Some other common Pictos: D-behind, A man, O woman, Hill red, |EEE| blue, LyJ coat, X an(^> I + to have, I ^^ to speak or to say, 4-about, i A to go or to walk, # good, #better, - best, beautiful. A simple Picto sentence: I 'A. 9 Q-X I <- - 6 (She walks under the trees and speaks to a man). When it comes to more...
...hopeless stage of the disease to begin with, or that their survival had any medical significance: many patients with a variety of cancers have survived for unpredictably long times with scant treatment of any kind. Moreover, other doctors pointed out, several of the patients got other treatments (X rays, hormones or surgery) besides Krebiozen, and it was impossible to sort out the effects...