Follaton

But even as she said the words, she realized that UCAI wouldn’t like the idea of Follaton’s director living with a woman half his age.

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The most recent of these—it had appeared in an obscure journal called Radiation Biology Archive—reported that Follaton was concentrating on a few of the usual substances, glycols, steroids, lipids.

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The Follaton Medical Foundation occupied three buildings on Mowbray Square in London, part of a sandstone façade decorated with those ornate iron railings—a street-length balcony too—that make parts of the city look like New Orleans.

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The Follaton Medical Foundation in London concentrated on victims of the Chernobyl meltdown a quarter of a century ago.

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She got out the Russian journals again and ran her finger line by line along the unreadable text of each article with a title that featured the word that looked like it meant “Follaton.”

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David pushed his plate away and told her that in exchange for the information—and a jet home from Gatwick—Christina had cast her as the whistleblower in the Follaton scandal that would oust UCAI from the uranium fields of Belarus.

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The Follaton Medical Foundation continues to work night and day to find a cure for the terrible consequences of exposure to radioactive materials.

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Her abortive stab at the language meant that she could more or less make out the dates and the letters which looked to her like the way “Follaton” might be spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet.

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“Look at the masthead for the Follaton Foundation.”

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At about the time Follaton was becoming involved in Belarus, Charles had come across an intriguing reference to some animal experiments in an article buried in the middle of The Times: a small lab in Dorset, a brilliant but cautious biologist, some extraordinary-sounding results.

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