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A bucket of radioactive uranium ore sets a Geiger counter wailing.

Or a substantial cockroach-like robot, off on a little trip to check out a nuclear accident, wearing a cute little backpack, fearless, regardless of what the Geiger counter says.

The memoir displays Dunthorne’s gift for wry understatement and his doggedness as a researcher: he dug through archives, toted around a Geiger counter and even cooked food that his great-grandfather once consumed.

“Lolla had its run, and we knew the model was breaking. It became too generic. It burned too bright,” said festival co-founder Marc Geiger.

There’s a place for the FIM movement in Western healthcare because little has changed since Geiger’s community health clinic days.