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Radiation affects the bone marrow, where the red cells are produced, and it is some weeks before the victim's system can take over again. White cells are manufactured in the marrow and lymph glands, which are also affected by radiation. The effects are delayed until about a week after a blast...
...present battlefront are hundreds of officers, soldiers and civilians with special skills-fingerprint experts from the FBI, men with detective experience, trained undertakers, X-ray technicians, doctors, dentists, chemists, anthropologists, clerks. At Kure, the lab staff looks for clues in laundry and dry-cleaning marks, scars, teeth, old bone fractures, even tattoos...
...head of the commission, the President named Dr. Paul Budd Magnuson, 67, famed bone and joint surgeon, a crack organizer (as he showed in the Veterans Administration), an open foe of bureaucracy in general and of Truman's "compulsory health" program in particular...
...would say, "but so is the American eagle." He painted steadily until death, because that was his chief joy and also because he knew he still had a lot to learn about painting. A born teacher, he never stopped studying: "I am just a student, chewing on a bone...
...Bones & Boasts. At the hospital, Lanza avoided run-of-the-ward tasks. He devoted his energies and talents to persuading his superiors that what Guatemala needed was a bone bank for surgical grafts. As a result, a delegation of Mexican officers and doctors journeyed to Guatemala last October to attend the inauguration of the country's first bone bank-six small glass jars of frozen bone fragments...