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...turned out to pretty much always be the same number no matter whether it was a giant promoted episode or had a big [guest] star on it. It turns out that in this climate that audience, particularly in the [18 to 35 year-old] demographic, is large enough to keep the show going...
...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...
...woman had been on the bed next to him for two days, tubes shoved into her throat, her eyes rarely flickering. Although she was unable to speak, Bonilla felt an affinity with her as he did with all his fellow patients, who egged each other on with calls to keep fighting. But she slipped away and became a reminder about how bad things could get. "It was the darkest moment I have ever had," says Bonilla, who would spend five days in the hospital. "I just tried to think about better times, about my wife and children, to give...