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...target tumors accurately within 0.5 mm, preserving more healthy tissue than other techniques, with fewer side effects. The precision stems from software that incorporates two perspectives of the tumor and combines them, much the way human eyes work binocularly. It then guides the robot to fire the radiation beam on target...
...forces picked up intelligence that Fazul and Aden Hashi Ayro--a notorious and ruthless Afghanistan-trained militia leader--were riding in a convoy close to Ras Kamboni. According to an Ethiopian officer who was present, a local herdsman was paid to walk past the convoy and drop an electronic beam, which guided the air strike. Ayro was wounded. Initial media reports said Fazul was dead, but U.S. officials now believe he was not in the convoy after all and is currently hiding in Kenya. U.S. Deputy Assistant of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan said on Jan. 17 that eight...
...liberals’ attempts to capture the moral high ground have thus far been weak or incoherent, especially in their moral case for single-payer health care. Such a system, by funneling most health care spending into the public sector, eliminates the private sector, and thus inequity. Millionaires, they beam, have to wait in the same lines for surgery as janitors. It is egalitarian. And therein lies its problem...
Something has changed in the world of Sam Beam, the bearded Floridian who goes by the moniker Iron & Wine: Where once was a hushed grandeur, a well-oiled beast has let out a hollow howl. Beam’s previous solo LPs (2002’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle” and 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days”) glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried...
...security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need to beam signals through concrete and steel. Three years ago, Kean and Hamilton observe, their commission noted that the Department of Homeland Security reported to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees. At least that number has now been pared down...