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Movies have evolved and will keep doing so as technology advances. I predict that Hollywood will eventually make feature-length movies by digitally re-creating long-gone movie legends. Using computer-generated imagery, animators will create fictional actors and maybe even render live movie stars a thing of the past. And on Oscar night, the red carpet will be rolled out for the computer geeks who created the stars...
...that smokers and drinkers should be getting screened earlier than ever for colorectal cancer. Doctors usually recommend that patients schedule their first exam on or near their 50th birthday. If you get a colonoscopy--considered the gold standard of screenings because it allows doctors to examine the whole length of the lower intestine and snip off any precancerous polyps they find--you may not need to be screened again for 10 years. If you use one of the less definitive tests-- a flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema or simple stool analysis--you should get tested more frequently...
...Most common length of pregnancies, in weeks, for U.S. mothers who gave birth in 2002--the most recent year for which data are available--compared with 40 weeks...
...statistically impossible to be hated any more” in the Muslim world, he said. One of the most outspoken members of the House, McGovern was the first to put forward a bill proposing to block tax money from funding the war in Iraq. McGovern also spoke at length about his frustration with the duplicity of politicians in Washington. “My definition of patriotism is to say what you believe,” McGovern said. “To be silent is not patriotism, but moral cowardice.” Student reaction to McGovern was generally positive...
...powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with the liberators of Buchenwald." Another adjustment to teaching Generation M: professors are assigning fewer full-length books and more excerpts and articles. (Koonz, however, was stunned when a student matter-of-factly informed her, "We don't read whole books anymore," after Koonz had assigned a 350-page volume. "And this is Duke!" she says...