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...Europe, 2.8 a year for every 1,000 people, according to Eurostat (at top is the Czech Republic). But is Britain about to leap up the chart? It could. Landmark rulings by Britain's House of Lords last week may, some lawyers predict, make England and Wales a divorce magnet, because the rulings have been so generous to financially dependent spouses. In one case, the judges upheld a $9.4 million award to a woman who'd been married to a fund manager worth $60 million. In the second case, the judges lifted the five-year limit imposed by a lower...
Kimberlin says his strategy is to target people in their early 20s, who are tech savvy and the biggest users of the high-drain devices Oxyride is most suited to run: digital cameras, MP3 players and handheld games. So the company advertises heavily on youth-magnet media such as MySpace com Yahoo! Instant Messenger and MTV com Panasonic has also become the battery sponsor of Anheuser-Busch theme parks and the Dew Action Sports Tour, a competition featuring skateboarding, BMX biking and freestyle motocross...
...scanner is an amazing thing; it can detect some tumors that are only the size of a grain of rice. Here's roughly how it works: You hold really still for half an hour or so in a big machine made of a magnet and some computers. The magnet itself is big, heavy and expensive - not to mention so strong that it could pull on a paper clip with nearly 100 pounds of force. You're blasted with strong radio waves. The protons in your body absorb some radio waves, then they let some back out - like a crystal wine...
...himself was the patient under discussion. When we had a moment alone in the doctor?s lounge, I asked him "what's going on?" We talked about tests. It had to be his brain. His wise head therefore ordered itself shot through with x-rays, ultrasonic waves, magnet fields of strength found only around spinning stars, radio waves, injections of iodine, gadolinium, positron-emitting glucose. Many other brains were wracked for the sake of his; neurologists, neuroradiologists, infectious disease specialists. Tens of thousands of dollars of tests. No diagnosis...
...flip side of this sad thought is one of our happiest, however. It's the reason why older doctors (when they're not thinking about HMO's) are generally a stable and contented bunch. Most of the time, most of our bodies work pretty well. Without a superconducting, supercooled magnet, without medical education, without any thought on our part, we battle and defeat disease and injury every second. Do you know how many things out there can kill you? Yet here you are reading. Something very, very powerful must be keeping you here. The machines we have to analyze...