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...railroad tracks, a half-mile inland along to keep looters and the curious away from what has become both an arduous recovery effort and a health hazard. In the wreckage over the weekend, the bodies of a woman and her baby were recovered, the child still strapped to her chest. Helicopters shuttle back and forth along the beaches, spotting bodies that float up on shore, over a week after Katrina's swells first pulled them...
Apple's stock price has almost quintupled over the past two years, revenues have doubled during that time, and Jobs is sitting on a war chest of $8 billion. He has a company with an almost freakishly diverse skill set--computer hardware, operating systems, applications, consumer electronics, Internet services. Will Jobs try to leverage Apple's dominance in the digital-music space to get its PC line back in the running? Or is the iPod the first in a full suite of Apple-flavored, network-enabled media appliances--TV, digital camera, camcorder, digital video recorder, video-game player...
...city. At one point, rescuer Randy White says, "Someone yelled out to me, 'If you don't get us out by 12 o'clock, we're going to start shooting all the rescuers.'" One man was standing on Canal Boulevard with water up to his chest wearing a mink coat that he had liberated from a store. "This natural disaster is beginning to look like a Watts riot," said a worried congressional aide in Washington as he watched the chaos. "There's something really ugly going on here, something wrong at a deeper level...
...most dramatic benefits of the heart-imaging revolution will probably show up first in emergency rooms. About 5.5 million people go to the hospital each year complaining of chest pain. Most of them are not suffering a heart attack, but it can be very tricky to separate out which ones have indigestion or a strained muscle from those who have something much, much more dangerous. A noninvasive test that shows whether or not the cardiac blood vessels are blocked could help make the diagnosis a lot easier. "We used to say to patients who came in with chest pain...
Some doctors in emergency rooms are already starting to count on cardiac CT for what they call a "triple rule-out." Here's a typical situation: a middle-age woman walks in complaining of chest pains but otherwise seems fine. The biggest concerns are that she might be having a heart attack, that her aorta may have developed a tear or that she has a major clot in the blood vessels of the lungs. Any of these could swiftly be deadly. Her electrocardiogram comes back normal, and blood tests indicate no cardiac damage. With no compelling reason to suspect...