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...establish the range in which his nose can identify 80% of the samples at a high odor concentration level and miss 80% at a low level. That range is known as the "confusion zone." When the tests are completed, the 100 employees with confusion zones closest to the group median will be placed on standby duty to fill the panel jobs. Says Story: "Nose duty will not be compulsory. It won't be written into the job description...
...Goodman cite a 1973 study in which female and male college students were asked to "write down the amount of money you would ask in compensation for each part of your body that was lost." The women sold themselves cheaper--they thought their eyes, for example, were worth a median dollar value of $20,000, while the men valued their eyes at a median...
...Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...
...colleagues inserted three "buttons" or fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand. To operate the arm and its hand properly, Hilton moves...
...reasons that are still not understood, this year's St. Louis encephalitis seems to have bypassed the young and hit hardest at the elderly. In Mississippi, for example, the median age for SLE victims is 70, and there have been relatively few cases in people under 40. SLE's younger victims usually suffer nothing worse than a moderate fever, stiff neck, severe headaches and some lassitude. The aged are more likely to run high fevers, have convulsions and, especially if already debilitated...