Word: citizens
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...doctors had in obtaining X-ray pictures of the brain. Because the cranium is so thick, they could make an X-ray beam "see" an abnormality only by injecting a patient with tracer dyes or air bubbles. When Cormack immigrated to the U.S. that year (he became an American citizen a decade later), he began exploring the physics of how X rays pass through differing body parts. Dividing this passage into cross-sectional slices, he found he could calculate the absorption of an X-ray beam by varying densities of tissue in any one of the slices. Cormack published...
...call myself a world citizen. I believe I am a resident of this world (we believe there are many other worlds) and I have a right to visit other places," he said...
...golden light as he stepped off his plane at 9 a.m. Again a brief airport ceremony with dignitaries was enlivened by the Pope's ability to unstuff a shirt. Mayor Edward Koch introducing himself: "Your Holiness, I am the mayor." The Pope: "I shall try to be a good citizen." Then off for two days of shrieking crowds and perhaps the toughest hours of his trip, a series of wildly contrasting events that showed all the nuances and talents of his complex personality...
...proud citizen of the great state of Texas and a fair judge of theater. I feel compelled to respond to Laurence Grafstein's review of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Apparently, Mr. Grafstein has done little or no research into this musical; this is evident from several of his groundless criticisms. The most glaring example is his description of the investigative reporter, Melvin P. Thorpe of Watchdog News. It is a "contrived role," a "suitable Dan Rather imitation...
Cormack, who was born in South Africa in 1924, is now an American citizen. He came to the United States in 1956 to work at Harvard's cyclotron laboratory as a research fellow with Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics...