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...quickly. Nothing unusual about that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network. Instead, it wirelessly taps into the airport's internal network, which transmits the call for free anywhere in the 16-sq-km airport. "It bypasses any mobile or telecom network,'' says Fotis Karonis, the airport's director of information technology and telecommunications. "It's an advantage, because you don't have to call with your mobile and pay.'' Using this system helps save airport workers as much as €163,000 per year. It might...
...accuracy of CT imaging with the functional information provided by a type of nuclear scan called positron-emission tomography (PET). Still in its early days in the clinic, PET/CT could help doctors see how much of the cardiac muscle is still alive after a heart attack and whether a bypass operation, balloon angioplasty or stent surgery would help damaged areas recover...
Increased chance for an octogenarian to survive five years after heart-bypass surgery compared with survival chance for eightysomethings in the general population, according to a study to be published in the journal Heart...
...leading indicator for politics more broadly. Politicians are spending a lot of time pondering the way the stars have learned to use single, powerful issues to tap into people's desire for a better world, the kind of yearnings that used to flow into party politics but now increasingly bypass it - as declining voter turnouts show. Speak to operatives from traditional parties in Britain and the U.S., and you hear frank admiration for the antipoverty campaigners allied to Geldof, Bono and Co. They are global, deeply media savvy and well connected. And they are audacious enough to dream...
HOSPITALIZED. Yelena Bonner, 62, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov, who had campaigned for 18 months by letters and with repeated hunger strikes so that she would be allowed to visit the West for medical treatment; in good condition, after surgery to bypass six of her coronary arteries, a number her doctors called unusually high; in Boston...