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...Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine estimates that subjects receive between 10-20 millisieverts of radiation per scan - a "non-trivial" dose, especially if the person has regular scans. (Nuclear facility workers are limited to an annual radiation dose of 30-50 mSv.) N.S.W. licensing laws require operators to explain to patients that "persons under the age of 50 years are more at risk of developing cancers as a result of the procedure...
When Singh tried to explain that he wore his turban for religious reasons, he said Hayes responded that the Kong, as a private establishment, makes no exception to the rule...
Bush's test is to explain to the country what comes next--what, if anything, the U.S. is really going to hand off to the Iraqis when the vaunted June 30 sovereignty transfer takes place. U.S. forces will be rotating in and out of Iraq for years, and their numbers are expected to stay at current levels through 2005. Bush has resisted calls to move up Iraqi elections from next year; his advisers concede that the road leading into and out of June 30 will be bumpy. "Will it happen right on time?" asked Rumsfeld. "I think so. I hope...
Many hobbies, when considered closely, make no sense (spoon collecting, anyone?). But then there is railfanning, which even its disciples are hard put to explain. There are about 175,000 U.S. railfans, almost all men, estimates Kevin Keefe of Trains magazine. They have clubs, websites and vacation excursions. They are, like all hobbyists, consumed by the cataloging of minutiae. "They're just attracted to trains," says John Bromley, spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad, who admits halfway through our conversation that he too is a railfan...
...this enough to explain Eats' astonishing six-month run atop best-seller lists in Britain and now its ascension onto several in the U.S.? Not quite. What gives the book its oomph is that behind Truss's larky manner, she's a fiery vigilante. If you can't learn the difference between the possessive its and the contraction it's, she writes, "you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." Just kidding? Don't be too sure. --By Christopher Porterfield