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...fighter was finally built, after years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
Silvio Berlusconi lobbied long and hard for this hour of glory. It was in Rome in 1957, after all, that six European leaders signed the founding treaty of the European Economic Community - the forerunner of today's European Union - so the Italian Prime Minister wanted the leaders of the 25 member states to return to the Eternal City to sign the European Constitution. On Friday they came, and Berlusconi made the most of it. With famed filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli directing the live television coverage, Berlusconi led his European colleagues through a carefully choreographed ceremony at Rome's historic Campidoglio city...
David C. Leach, executive director of ACGME, said in a press release yesterday that these studies “help validate that the ACGME is moving in the right direction in its regulation of duty hour standards.” He added that “continuing efforts to further refine the standards are needed...
This data closely corroborated Lockley’s findings that interns working 30-hour shifts had twice the rates of attention failures and fell asleep more frequently on their shifts...
Official blogs are the polar opposite. Where people like Christopher Allbritton are trying to transcend mainstream media (with a fraction of their resources), official blogs are attempting to repackage them. Of the three major American 24-hour news outlets—MSNBC, CNN and Fox—two have dedicated staff members to permanent blogs (CNN is still lacking in this regard). Fox in particular devotes a substantial section of its website to its daily selection of five or six blogs. They seem to be mainly targeted at generating interest in Fox’s various news-talk shows...