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...study of CT scan screening for lung cancer seemed to produce results that were flat-out dazzling: Of the 174,000 people who are given a lung cancer diagnosis each year, only 5% are still alive 10 years later. But when CT scans were used to detect tumors early, the survival rate leaped to a stunning...
...pistols and grenades moving south. Until now, the El Paso sector had only seven ATF agents. The Obama plan will also place more federal antidrug and immigration and customs agents along the 2,000-mile-long frontier. Those cops, moreover, will be equipped with new X-ray technologies to detect contraband cash as well as guns...
While drone warfare is controversial when it surreptitiously operates over Pakistani territory, there is no secrecy about its use to spot trouble ahead of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan itself. One system perfected in Iraq is headed for Central Asia. Task Force ODIN (short for Observe, Detect, Identify and Neutralize) is reputed to have killed 3,000 alleged bomb-planters and led to the capture of several hundred more...
...days. For nearly a decade, Apple's mouse famously included just a single button (right-clicking be damned!). After years of complaints from users, Apple released a new "Mighty Mouse" in 2005 that still featured just a single button, although the design incorporated technology that allowed the mouse to detect clicks in different directions. This was deemed more acceptable - or at least less blasphemous - than just adding a second button...
...here's the latest recommendation on prostate-cancer screening: Men should continue to have both a manual prostate exam and a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) every year - bearing in mind that neither test may affect your odds of surviving prostate cancer. (Read "Can a Urine Test Detect Deadly Prostate Cancer...