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Moreover, Google's censored version of itself is hardly foolproof. Information is like a toddler: it goes everywhere and gets into everything, and you can't stop it all the time. Chinese doctors were swapping damning e-mails about SARS long before the government would admit there was a problem. Just fooling around with spelling and capitalization can outfox China's online filters, and there's free software available that can give Jingjing and Chacha the slip; Google's free Web Accelerator Tool does that quite nicely...
...military has closed the city to the outside world, allowing people in only after they show ID cards that they are residents of Fallujah. The Marines man five entry checkpoints, turning away anyone who can't provide proper credentials or who seems suspicious. "Obviously, it's not foolproof," says Captain Chad Walton, spokesman for the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines. "But it's way better than...
Anyone in the wrong place at the right time can create a noteworthy photograph. The technology of picture taking is now so foolproof that it routinely trumps the artistry of professionals in breaking news. The most articulate images from the July 7 bombings in London were shot by passengers with cell phones. The torturers at Abu Ghraib recorded their own crimes with cheap digital devices and created some of the first icons of the 21st century. In the introduction to his refreshingly broad-minded book Witness: The World's Greatest News Photographers, Reuel Golden acknowledges these challenges for photojournalists...
...money after a specified period of being clean. Incentives, however, will tend to protect your money more than motivate your daughter, says David Crausman, a psychologist at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif., because addicts really recover only when they're ready. So none of this is foolproof. Still, as we know only too well, whatever our child's age or our imagined level of control, there's nothing foolproof about being a parent. --By Francine Russo...
...least that's the idea. Cardiac CT is not foolproof. Unlike catheterization, it doesn't yet produce clear enough pictures of some of the smaller arteries of the heart. And any arterial plaques that contain calcium deposits, which typically appear in older people, show up like white blobs, so that the blockage could be partial or total (see box). Then there's the issue of radiation. A typical cardiac CT scan exposes a patient to 50 to 80 times the amount of radiation in a series of full-mouth dental X rays. Researchers hope to figure out ways to decrease...