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...purpose and ends when the problem is resolved. Abnormal inflammation extends beyond its appointed limits in space and time; it does not end when the problem is resolved. The inflammatory process unleashes some of the immune system's most sophisticated weaponry, including enzymes that can rupture cell walls and digest vital components of cells and tissues. When inflammation targets normal tissues, when it just won't quit, it is abnormal and promotes disease rather than healing. Abnormal inflammation has been linked to a wide range of diseases, including cancer, coronary heart disease and the autoimmune diseases--Type 1 diabetes, multiple...
...papacy makes for strange dinner companions: Word this week that Pope Benedict XVI dined for two hours with dissident theologian Hans K?ng may be difficult for many conservative Catholics to digest. K?ng, who had long been denied his request for an audience with John Paul II, is widely viewed as a kind of "anti-Ratzinger" because of the sharp contrast between his liberal views on doctrine and those of the fellow German theologian who would eventually become pope. In fact, then-Cardinal Ratzinger had a role in stripping K?ng of the right to teach Catholic theology in 1979, because...
...could boost their turnovers, too. London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion. Dermot Nolan, an analyst who has written a report on mobile TV for London consultancy Screen Digest, notes that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users. "Even if you get 10-15% penetration, that's big bucks," he says. And he predicts that by 2012 some 256 million mobile-TV handsets will be shipped, up from essentially zero this year. Traditional broadcasters seem eager...
...Five years ago, mobile operators started spending hundreds of billions of euros licensing and building 3G networks to deliver, among other things, video images. But it's turning out that heavy video usage can bog down a 3G network. "Broadcast is far more effective at mass mobile," says Screen Digest's Nolan. Users, of course, don't really care how the images are transmitted, but media and mobile companies do. Every bit of programming that travels over a broadcast network rather than a mobile network is lost revenue for the operators. In December, six of Korea's biggest networks will...
Danjel Bout, 32, a logistics captain, writes to digest what he sees, to make sense of his experiences and most of all to escape. From a group of fellow officers being fed a sheep's-head dinner to missing his wife to watching a robot disarm a roadside bomb that nearly blew him up, Bout gives vivid, sometimes lyrical, descriptions of the smells, tastes and sounds of the Baghdad he sees. The cooling summer mornings, he says, "settle around you like a light winter coat." He uploads lots of photos too. "Some soldiers immerse themselves in video games; others click...