Davidson, the University of Chicago cardiologist, says this was allowable because using an easier-to-take measurement of carotid artery plaque would yield a clearer result.
The mandate to offer health insurance doesn't take effect until 2014, but the "measurement period" used by the feds to determine a firm's average number of full-time employees started last month.
Now, Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical and thermal measurement, asserts that the shroud can be reliably dated to the time of Christ, give or take a few centuries.