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...Myong Suk was one of them. In February 1998, she fled North Korea for China. In October of that year, however, Chinese police conducted one of their periodic raids in search of refugees from the North. She tried to hide, but two policemen discovered her. She was arrested and sent back to North Korea, where she was sentenced to three years in a labor camp. "We were so hungry in the camps that we used to pick up and eat the remains of apples that the guards had thrown away." After a year and a half, during which she says...
...computerized patient information and medication orders is meant to reduce "adverse drug events" and ensure that the patient's history and treatment notes are available to everyone who needs them. But progress does not always equal safety. "Technology should remove the burden, but you can get problems. You can hide behind technology and spend more time talking to your computer than to your patients," says Dr. Albert Wu, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation to trust computers...
...Bush to announce to reporters in a choked voice that he would leave his job in two or three weeks, a few months short of three years at the podium. McClellan, considered "family" because he had worked for Bush in the Texas Governor's office, made no effort to hide from colleagues his sadness about going early. But top Republicans were being consulted about his replacement within days after Bolten's promotion was announced, and the loyal Texan got the message. Friends said McClellan wanted to get it over with, to short-circuit the absurdity of having to refuse...
...dangerous. As one flies into Arbil, the sole sign of war is the airport's heavy security. Kurdish soldiers - or peshmerga, as they are known - sit in tall watchtowers along the perimeter, and civilian vehicles may not enter the airport gates, where baggage searchers wear ski masks to hide their faces. Flights from the new Kurdistan Airlines and other carriers arrive directly from Istanbul, Frankfurt, Dubai and Beirut. Austrian Airlines officials have agreed the company will be the first European airline to fly to Arbil, with three Vienna flights a week scheduled to start sometime this year. That's just...
...discussion focused largely on human consciousness and language. The ability to communicate through language may be a key to determining other people’s consciousness and experience, according to Dennett. But the panelists also pointed out that another unique feature of language is that it allows humans to hide intentions. “God gave us language so we can conceal our thoughts,” Dennett responded. Questions from the audience focused on issues such as free will, spirituality, and what constitutes certainty and proof. “Proof is that which makes everybody shut...