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Stephen King's publisher, Simon & Schuster, tried something new yesterday, releasing a book by a major author solely as a $2.50 online download. Described by King as a "ghost story in the grand manner," "Riding the Bullet" is only 16,000 words - roughly equivalent to 40 printed pages - but the Internet experiment is a major milestone for the nascent e-books industry...
...Wechsler also cautioned against relying on "magic bullet solutions" and said that solving the problem requires the help of all members of the campus community...
Besim Kadriu still keeps that photo in his wallet as a lucky charm, for while some people would opt for death rather than disfigurement, he considers himself a fortunate man. For one thing, a couple of centimeters farther back and that Serb bullet would have hit his brain. For another, he was reunited with Valbona and survived for three months in the care of relatives. He was still avoiding mirrors when the Kosovo Force peacekeepers arrived. But luckiest of all--and thanks to the efforts of an American doctor and a British military medic with a bag full of electronic...
...Kayla was walking ahead of him, up the school stairs. He called out, "I don't like you." She had her back to him, then turned and asked, as a challenge, "So?" The boy, who had first pointed the gun at another classmate, swung around and fired a single bullet that entered Kayla's right arm and traveled through her vital organs. Boaz says he saw blood on both sides of Kayla's stomach. She grabbed her stomach, then her neck, gasping...
...journalistic sidelines, however, is writing about gadgets and high tech. It was this technological bent, in fact, that led directly to his powerfully affecting story on how telemedicine played a key role in giving hope to a young Albanian man whose face had been shattered by a bullet in Kosovo. Digital cameras, laptops and Internet links transmitted the photos that touched the hearts of the team of volunteer doctors who offered the war victim not just a new face but a new life as well. The transforming role that technology is playing in our world is a theme dear...