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...must be like that for Bill Clinton; it was certainly that way for Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles. Enter 1926 China at the start of the Communist-Nationalist civil war with McQueen (whose sailor-suited Jake Holman may or may not have inspired the Village People to record "In the Navy") getting an appreciative look from a missionary's daughter as he boards his Yankee gunboat. Leave it, three hours and and a lot of great scenery later, with the perfect throat-wrenching closer: "What the hell happened...
...Leonard Holman, Cooke professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and a pioneer in nuclear medicine best known for his work on the effects of cocaine addiction, died of cancer Feb. 1 at his home in Newton...
...Holman was the chair of the radiology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital, having worked there since 1970. He joined the HMS faculty...
...Brigham and Women's, Holman led the development of single-photon emission computer tomography (SPECT...
While his work focused primarily on SPECT, some of Holman's most ground-breaking research came in 1987 when he used X-ray and CAT-scan imaging to analyze the bodies of several Egyptian mummies...