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...American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country, the 12-year-old from...
...ecologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., is also concerned. A slight decrease in the flow of groundwater will probably not be detrimental to the pockets of water that dot Western deserts, he says. The problem is, "What's slight? At what point do we start to alter the functional ecology?" The loss of the diminutive snails, fish and other organisms that dwell in desert springs would be important to more than just ecologists and taxonomists. Those tiny animals are indicator species, the canaries in the environmental coal mine that provide the first warning that the whole system...
...expects any of these concerns to hold the field back for long. Noninvasive imaging has the potential to radically alter the way physicians diagnose and monitor heart disease. "The whole paradigm for us has been that you don't get that kind of information unless you stick things into people," says Duke University's Douglas. But as cardiac scanners become more powerful and their diagnoses more definitive, sticking probes into people is going to sound less and less like modern medicine--and more like voodoo. --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago...
...Friday showed that an injectable version of the drug artesunate?one of a range of medicines derived from sweet wormwood, a traditional Chinese herb?can reduce the chances of death from severe malaria by 35% compared to quinine. The results were so striking that the study is likely to alter the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for treatment of severe malaria. "This is quite significant," says Dr. Peter Olumese, a malaria-drug-policy expert at the WHO. "This drug is a good product...
...accepting illegal contributions in a Texas investigation that is continuing. And while there isn't yet a House ethics committee investigation of DeLay's acceptance of a trip to Scotland allegedly financed by Abramoff and as well as other interactions between the two, legal sources say that Abramoff's alter ego Scanlon is cooperating to at least some degree with prosecutors in a separate, Washington-based federal probe of the lobbyist's dealings with Indian tribes and with elected officials. That could foreshadow trouble for the congressman who once called Abramoff one of his "closest and dearest friends." DeLay...