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...they can be used selectively. Isotopes of iodine, for example, incorporate in the thyroid gland, where they can be used in both the detection and treatment of cancer, in some cases even eliminating the need for surgery. Fluorine, a related element, has a radioactive isotope (F18) that concentrates in bones, facilitating the detection of bone cancers...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose almost seems a function of the desert of which she writes-every superfluous gesture, as if in deference to the overwhelming heat, the sun and shifting sands, eliminated. And although the novel's action takes place in L. A., and a good deal of the rest in Vegas, there...
...Another bone of contention was a subsequent suggestion by Galbraith that Texas Democrats help elect George Bush, a Republican, to the Senate over Lloyd Bensen, a conservative who defeated the Democrats' incumbent Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary last spring...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose almost seems a function of the desert of which she writes-every superfluous gesture, as if in deference to the overwhelming heat, the sun and shifting sands, eliminated. And although the novel's action takes place in L. A., and a good deal of the rest in Vegas, there...
...Another bone of contention was a subsequent suggestion by Galbraith that Texas Democrats help elect George Bush, a Republican, to the Senate over Lloyd Bensen, a conservative who defeated the Democrat's incumbent Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary last spring...