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President Reagan first learned that he might be susceptible to developing polyps in May 1984, when doctors discovered a growth in his intestine during a routine physical examination. The discovery was made with a device called a sigmoidoscope, a tube containing a light source. Inserted into the colon, it enables...
Ever since they learned that the polyp removed from President Reagan's colon during a 3-hr, operation was a startling 2 in. across, most doctors following his case had been predicting the outcome of the pathologists' tests. So they were prepared last week for Dr. Steven Rosenberg's dramatic...
At least 50 Stava residents are believed to have lost their lives. Even harder hit was the tourist population, especially guests at three hotels, the Erika, the Stava and the Miramonti. All were crowded at the time, and it was originally feared that 95 children were among the victims when...
Other physicists, agreeing with Rabi, take the view that the military-scientific partnership was not only dangerous to the country but detrimental to the quality of American science as well. Philip Morrison, celebrated for his teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carried the container of plutonium in his hands...
When the Bomb fell, Numata, then 21, was working in a military communications office. The building collapsed in the explosion, and her left ankle was severed. That night she was taken to a hospital, where she remained for three days with no doctor, no nurse or medicine. Her left leg...