Word: pathologist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Such revelations have been surprisingly accurate. In one case, In-111 disclosed a lung tumor six months before it became visible on X rays. In another, the scanner showed a cancer six centimeters wide. From the operating room, the pathologist studying the growth phoned Hunter to say that the radiologist had been wrong-the cancer was only three centimeters wide. Later, he corrected himself; more careful examination revealed a spread of malignant cells through the six-centimeter zone...
Freckles and Braces. The daughter of a public-health pathologist in Oxford, Maggie grew up with freckles on her face and braces on her teeth. She still recalls her grandmother's remark to her mother when Maggie announced that she wanted to go into the theater: "Oh, you can't let her, not with that face." But it didn't keep her from working her way up from the prompter's chair to walk-on parts as a maid, and then to traditional repertory...
...Forest Service officials first began to notice a peculiar yellowing of needles on on the the San Bernardino trees in the 1950s. Not until the early 1960s was the cause of the disease traced to smog. "Photosynthesis is inhibited almost immediately," says Paul Miller, a plant pathologist with the Forest Service at Riverside. In controlled experiments, smog concentrations of as little as .15 ppm. caused a 20% inhibition of photosynthesis within 60 days. The reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough...