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After a week of door-to-door campaigning, hand shaking, and finger pointing by prospective members, 57 newcomers will joining the 88-member council. Twenty-one of the new delegates are first-years...
Some designs take a more radical approach that would require users to master a new way of typing. The DataHand, developed by Industrial Innovations in Scottsdale, Arizona, abandons conventional keys altogether, replacing them with padded handrests and little finger wells. Each finger can produce five different characters by pressing forward, back, left, right or straight down. Infogrip, Inc., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, goes one step further. It makes a - seven-key "chordic" keypad that works like a court stenographer's machine: the operator presses a different combination of keys to produce each letter...
Neither of the major party candidates, though, have even lifted a finger to court one rare elusive block of voters: the deceased...
...election days approach and the campaigning begins to get more heated, some council members warn voters to beware of individuals who are too quick at pointing the finger...
...there is a single leading reason why middle-age men dread going to the doctor, it is the prostate examination. Routinely recommended for those 50 and over, the procedure calls for a physician to insert a gloved finger into the rectum to probe the chestnut-size prostate gland, which is near the bladder and produces some of the fluids in semen. But however uncomfortable and embarrassing the exam may be, it could be a lifesaver. The rate of prostate cancer in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past several years. It strikes 1 in 11 American males...