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...There is, however, a mind-reading machine that certain doctors and nurses can use in cases like Charlene's and Jacob's. Its use is frowned upon by many in administrative positions and specific measures to render these machines useless, most notably long forms, committee meetings and menu-driven care algorithms, are being implemented with increasing ferocity. It is only this machine that can make rational and humane treatment decisions for the suffering though. It is, in fact, only this machine which suffers. See past the ones that beep and blink; the mind remains our most important machine in medicine...
...investigative journalism's biggest stories - I sent a request to the Big B and SRK asking them for comment. Not having received a reply from either, I set out to take the pulse of India's movie lovers. Was there a fight? What was real and what was publicity-driven artifice? Given this is Bollywood, does it even matter...
...understood that change comes from the grass roots up, not from the top down. O.K., O.K., it's a fine sentiment. But it's wrong: this campaign is all about him. In fact, given Obama's slim political résumé and drop-dead charisma, his campaign is more candidate-driven than most. It's all about the spectacular keynote speech he gave to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. It's all about the fact that he's--pace Joe Biden--a young, attractive, eloquent and intelligent Kenyan Kansan. (Baseball cap spotted in Iowa later that day: OBAMA '08--ARTICULATE...
...volunteer contributions simply because a market has yet to emerge to price this "new kind of labor." He and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals...
...Back in Linyi, Chen's activities were less well received. Hours after meeting Hannah in the Chinese capital in the fall of 2005, Chen was detained by security officials from his hometown, who had driven all the way to Beijing to nab him. For the next six months, he was kept under virtual house arrest. Then, after trying to leave his village without official permission last March, Chen was arrested again. In June, the charges against him were announced and his conviction followed. (Chen's wife Yuan Weijing, Li says, faced similar charges and is now under house arrest...