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...doing research, plus his gig as a staff writer for the New Yorker--Groopman began to intensively examine how doctors think and how they get sidetracked from the truth. He learned that about 80% of medical mistakes are the result of predictable mental traps, or cognitive errors, that bedevil all human beings. Only 20% are due to technical mishaps--mixed-up test results or hard-to-decipher handwriting--that typically loom larger in patients' minds and on television shows...
...Shenzhen's manufacturers are facing many of the same problems that bedevil South Korea and Taiwan, where makers of low-end products, beset by competition and eroding margins, have in recent years been trying to make the transition to more sophisticated products. Shenzhen is trying to jump-start that transition by removing obstacles facing inventive startups. Six years ago, Xian-Ping Lu left his job as director of research at an R&D center for a pharmaceutical firm in the U.S. and, with other researchers, planned to set up their own company in China. Although they considered cities like Shanghai...
...insurgents believed to be operating inside the country. While al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq faction has been linked to some of the worst attacks in Iraq, homegrown Iraqi insurgents have shown themselves perfectly capable of building and deploying the improvised explosives that continue to bedevil and kill fellow citizens and U.S. troops. The sectarian violence al-Zarqawi helped spark with brutal attacks on Shi'ite "infidels" has taken root in the lawless country, with illegal militias and death squads murdering thousands of Iraqis in the past six months...
...choice. Tristan believes that practicing his guitar glorifies God, while his parents wish he would do more homework. He's slowly making his own decisions about right and wrong. It's a skill that will keep him safe, he says, from the myriad temptations that will bedevil him between middle school and marriage...
Among the problems that continue to bedevil Africa are war, inadequate transportation, and shortages of seed, fertilizer and plow animals. Says Robert McCloskey, external-affairs counselor for Catholic Relief Services: "The situation will remain fairly desperate over the coming year. The harvest is better, but the number of people in need will remain high." Another problem is that little has been done to make African agriculture more resilient. Few of the drought-prone countries have grain reserves, and a lack of rain next year could easily wipe out this year's gains. "The emphasis is still on feeding the person...