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...able to mimic her gestures and parrot her words to play the young revolutionary, as if she really were a stock stereotype. But her selflessness and love of family put her infinitely beyond my class...
...Americans suffer from hearing loss, yet only a quarter of them bother to wear hearing aids. Last week Starkey Labs introduced a new device that could encourage more people to seek help. Unlike typical aids that simply magnify all sounds, the tiny Cetera model uses new digital technology to mimic our natural ability to block out background noise and zero in on specific sounds, like a whisper or a voice across the room. If it wins FDA approval, the Cetera could be available for about $3,000 by summer...
That will open the way to the next phase of the digital age: artificial intelligence. By our providing so many thoughts and preferences to our machines each day, they'll accumulate enough information about how we think so that they'll be able to mimic our minds and act as our agents. Scary, huh? But potentially quite useful. At least until they decide they don't need us anymore and start building even smarter machines they can boss around...
...chance, says Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way and manager of the Focus Trust, a stock fund that tries to mimic Buffett's style. "You shouldn't take this as a cue to be seduced into commodities, and don't misunderstand this as a big move out of stocks," Hagstrom says. Indeed, the silver and T-bonds, even after recent run-ups in price, account for less than 10% of Berkshire's $34 billion portfolio...
Raloxifene is one of a group of compounds whose formal name (which only a scientist could love) is selective estrogen response modulators, or SERMs. They are designed to mimic the hormone's good qualities while avoiding its bad ones--or at least that's the theory. Although SERMs have been widely publicized and are likely to find a big market, some doctors and women's health groups are sounding a note of caution. To get the best protection against osteoporosis, they note, women might have to take raloxifene for decades. And because the drug has been studied in humans...