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Treatment for such an injury is relatively simple. As soon as the victim is down off the mountain, doctors can X-ray the leg and line up the broken bones. They can also set the leg without anaesthesia, since they usually see the patient before painful swelling begins. The patient should be able to get around on crutches within a few days, use a walking cast after six weeks, and walk without a cast, though with care, after another...
...only five of the New Rochelle contingent passed the physical. And there was solace, even for them. As one of the unfortunates was told, by a luckier registrant wielding an X-ray like a bloody sword, "All you have to do is ask for a personal appearance in New Rochelle. The examiner there is a Dove and he'll put braces on you himself before he'll accept...
...lunar soil, turned to photograph the mother ship, climbed up an incline and crossed a small crater. The robot also displayed impressive scientific skills. Like Luna 16, it carries a device to gouge out samples of lunar soil. It also has the capacity to analyze samples -with an onboard X-ray spectrometer -and report the findings to earth. In addition, it can detect cosmic rays, stomp on the ground to test its rigidity and-speculates Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory, where the radio transmissions from Russian space shots are carefully monitored -take three-dimensional pictures...
...gallium. At Ohio State University, Radiologists William W. Hunter Jr. and Xavier J. Riccobono worked with indium Ill, which was produced in the campus cyclotron. Using a special scanner, they found that the radioisotope concentrated heavily in bone in the first 24 hours after intravenous injection. As a result, X-ray photographs taken after the first day tended to reveal bone cancer. Even better, the radioactive molecules then joined proteins in the blood, concentrating in young, fast-growing tumors, thus revealing the sites of other cancers...
Friedman has drastically curtailed his studies of X-ray galaxies. He has also reduced his work on quasars and pulsars, those mysterious sources of energy in outer space that promise not only a clearer understanding of the nature of the universe and of basic physical laws but also might provide clues for developing new energy sources on earth...