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...able to change people's perceptions of Talbots more quickly than we otherwise would have," says a hopeful Lori Wagner, chief marketing officer for Talbots. The company just needs the First Lady to keep wearing its clothes. "If Michelle Obama consistently shows up in Talbots dresses, it can definitely be a game changer," says Black, who adds that the Essence cover has already driven more traffic to Talbots stores...
Where Google Flu Trends may prove more useful, however, is in the tracking of an epidemic once it is under way. If the current H1N1 outbreak were to worsen and start to spread more quickly, then Google's system may be able to keep pace with it and alert health officials immediately as the problem grows. "If the disease starts spreading in a particular area, for example, and affects thousands of people, then we hope that our system would detect that within 24 hours," says Ginsberg. The idea would be to catch the rise in cases before too many people...
Still, if public-health officials are to keep ahead of the millions of bacteria and viruses that can potentially make us sick, they're going to need all the help they can get. And taking their search outside hospitals and doctors' offices may be an important first step...
...took away from the event was a realization of the difficulty of maintaining personal convictions in the face of adversity. “It sounds like it was easy. It sounds like it was the right thing, but hearing him speak, hearing all he had to go through to keep his religious convictions, makes you realize that it’s a whole different story to keep your beliefs,” he said...
...more accommodating) will be interpreted in Pakistan as a sign that the U.S. is pulling away from its old ally, and could weaken the government. But lawmakers seemed unimpressed by Holbrooke's appeals. Committee chairman Democrat Howard Berman of California said the House is "simply asking the Pakistanis to keep the commitments they have already made to fight the terrorists who threaten our national security and theirs, and that they make some progress doing so, with progress defined very broadly." If that is unreasonable, Berman asked, "then what does that tell us about our relationship with Pakistan...