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Sources--Good News: Int. Headache Congress (6/30/01), Journal of the AMA (6/27/01). Bad News: JAMA (6/27/01), American Diabetes Assn. Scientific Sessions (6/25/01...
...Back in the nation's hospitals, of course, it's business as usual. Even as the AMA prepares to debate the fate of the 36-hour day, residents around the country are driving to work, mentally preparing themselves for a day, a night and another day of life-and-death decisions. And all the while, most of them are using their hard-won medical knowledge not only to save lives - but also to puzzle out a way of ingesting caffeine via discreet intravenous tubing...
More than 40 Philippine websites have been hacked in the past year, including those of the nation's navy and air force, popular portal Yehey.com and AMA computer college. On many of the sites hackers have left obscene messages berating the system administrator for sloppy security while also heaping scorn on rival hackers, in a boasting battle similar to those between rappers. "When creativity expresses itself in an immature way, it can often be destructive," says Randy David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where...
...ELECTED. JORGE SAMPAIO, 61, to a second term as President of Portugal; in Lisbon. The Socialist Party candidate won 56% of the vote against 35% for his nearest rival, conservative candidate Joaquim Ferreira do Ama-ral, ensuring a first-round victory. Sampaio benefited from the lackluster opposition's low appeal, though his victory was tempered by poor voter turnout, with only half of those eligible going to the polls...
...ama Abu Sway excitedly prepared the family's iftar meal to break the fast of Ramadan last month. Her son Yussef, on the run for two years for shooting attacks on Israelis, would be there. He had sent word through his wife that he would sneak back for one of his occasional visits to the family home in Artas, a village south of Bethlehem, to share the meal with his parents. As the house was being readied for Yussef's arrival, Na'ama heard a hail of shots. Then her husband Ahmad screamed, "There's a young...