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...about 9%. Yet far from being overstretched, the hospital most days feels desultory, with nurses lingering in near empty wards because people cannot afford to pay for care. Emergency maternity care is supposed to be free in Sierra Leone, but in reality, patients are asked to pay for every item, including cotton swabs, gauze and syringes--this in a country where the average income is about $200 a year. If transfusions are needed, relatives have to donate blood to replace what is used...
...surprising idea. And from a scientific point of view, it was intriguing to Gabriel: Could science actually measure the psychological benefit of celebrity worship? Gabriel enlisted a group of 348 college students, one-fifth of whom admitted to having a celebrity crush. She gave all the students an 11-item self-esteem questionnaire; their responses allowed researchers to rank the participants according to their baseline level of self-esteem. Next, she instructed the students to spend five minutes writing an essay about their favorite celebrity, an exercise designed to bring their fan feelings to the fore. Finally, all subjects were...
...knows how to deliver a parting shot. "I'm not like you," Fukuda barked at a reporter who questioned whether he'd given his all in the post. The sharp comeback is now a pop-culture catchphrase; T shirts adorned with the remark are the best-selling item among more than 900,000 designs at online retailer Club...
...sometimes even a magician can't pull a rabbit out of a hat. Apple has sold more than 160 million iPods to date, and it's good business to refresh the lines now and again. It's hardly news, though. Indeed, the most interesting non-health related item to come out of the event was the news that a possible fix for some of the bugs that plague the iPhone - better battery management, less crashing, faster backups - is coming out in a 2.1 firmware on Sept. 12. But the iPhone's long-awaited cut-and-paste functionality? Keep waiting...
...former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s military strategy in Iraq , scrutinized lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with Indian tribes , and railed against the pork barrel projects approved by a Republican Congress . While Palin scraped the pork barrel for federal dollars herself, she also line-item-vetoed $268 million worth of hometown projects from the state budget, or about 10 percent of state spending. These political victories have enabled the McCain campaign to sell her as a bull moose, not as a culture warrior...