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...telephony is even making inroads into the wireless industry. For now, most hospitals ban cell-phone use in patient areas because the phones can produce electromagnetic radiation that interferes with hospital monitors. That has forced patients and nurses to rely on archaic paging systems. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., recently decided to begin using a voice-over-IP-enabled device from Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y., on wireless networks in its three hospitals. The device, which combines PDA functions with voice, offers several benefits: it doesn't suffer from interference, as cell phones do; it lets patients connect directly...
...majority of animals are running around quite happily in their cages." When Time visited HLS's dog facility earlier this year, 708 beagle puppies were on hand - all from controlled breeding stock and with decades of background data behind them. "People think we have a lot of very ill animals on site," says Cass. "We're not injecting animals with aids and seeing if we can cure them. All the animals are healthy." The dozens of alert, tail-wagging puppies in one large room - subjects of testing for a potential new anticancer medication - appeared to be healthy, frisky and well...
Strauss founded the Steps with two colleagues in 1981 (“when Bob Dole was only 71 years old”), while working for former Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill. After eight years of being a Washington insider, including chief counsel for a Senate sub-committee on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, he couldn’t hold it in anymore. Politics was just too funny...
...typically Victoria’s Secret-style tack (the keyhole neckline) and also the “Christmas tree sweater,” a more classic example of the only-wear-this-once-a-year nature of the holiday sweater purchase. Either way, it’s an ill-advised fashion choice...
...emphasizes that the ideological label does not extend to HIPJ as a whole. According to a statement on its website, the organization was founded hours after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as “a group of people working to…do our part to stop the ill-conceived wars that now surround...