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...Delray Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is funding the initiative and wants to market its tags to the roughly 45 million high-risk patients in the U.S. with diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. The company says these patients can benefit from having instant and accurate access to medical records, which the chip would provide. "The medical community understands the need for a comprehensive electronic medical record that has portability," says VeriChip Chairman and CEO Scott Silverman. "What goes on in emergency rooms and even in practices today is archaic. Pen-and-paper record keeping...
...about the administration’s crackdown is its manner of interaction with student groups. The College has shown little-to-no interest in learning about the social situations and pressures students actually encounter, and how its policies might affect their circumstances. Instead, its modus operandi is to demand instant, mandatory meetings with group leaders, present them with vague accusations, and refuse to present specific or helpful evidence to deal with the “problem...
...take it, you see it, you fix it,” says Irina A. Rozovtsky, the teaching fellow for the class. She explains that there is no need for digital photography students to wait for negatives to come back, or to ever handle film. Because the digital students get instant feedback on their work, they end up taking almost four times the number of photographs that the film camera students take in a week. At the same time, she says it frees up a lot of time for the digital students to take risks with their photographs instead of having...
...August inflation figures were released, the government took the unusual step of freezing all state-controlled prices, including those for gasoline, water and electricity. Aware of the potential that high rates of inflation have for fomenting social unrest, officials also warned businesses against gouging consumers; in August, authorities accused instant-noodle makers of illegally conspiring to raise prices. Meanwhile, to allay public anxiety about eroding paychecks, Beijing has been encouraging local governments to raise minimum wages, which cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Nanjing have done...
Pundits termed the ruling "satanically subtle" in instant text messages announcing the results of the controversy-laden trial. But the court may simply have been giving deference to a former Supreme Court Justice who not only brought the current case against Musharraf's eligibility but was actually running for the presidency himself. (Last week, the courts ruled in favor of Musharraf's nomination, dismissing three petitions against it on technical grounds...