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...telephony is even making inroads into the wireless industry. For now, most hospitals ban cell-phone use in patient areas because the phones can produce electromagnetic radiation that interferes with hospital monitors. That has forced patients and nurses to rely on archaic paging systems. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., recently decided to begin using a voice-over-IP-enabled device from Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y., on wireless networks in its three hospitals. The device, which combines PDA functions with voice, offers several benefits: it doesn't suffer from interference, as cell phones do; it lets patients connect directly...
Like Balestracci, freshman tailback Clifton Dawson was unanimously selected for the squad, though he was ineligible for rookie of the year honors after spending a redshirt season practicing with Northwestern prior to attending Harvard...
...about 6,000 years ago, they no doubt imported wine from their neighbors. In such stepwise fashion, McGovern suggests, viniculture (a term he uses to encompass both the growing and the processing of grapes for wine) spread from its point of origin in the uplands of eastern Turkey or northwestern Iran, eventually crossing the Mediterranean to fill the goblets of the ancient Greeks...
...buildings and winding alleyways. The newer parts of the city attest to the commercial boom that resulted from China's more recent forays into international trade. Seafood is plentiful at the cafés strung along the sun-drenched beach. DUNHUANG Set amid dramatic white sand dunes in the northwestern province of Gansu, Dunhuang was once one of the main stops along the Silk Road. Nearby are some of the finest frescoes in all of China. Created between the 5th and 13th centuries A.D., these works of art, some of which show signs of Greek influence, depict everything from musical...
...Northwestern transfer stepped up time and time again in Fitzpatrick’s absence, scampering for an amazing four touchdowns on 219 yards against Lafayette, the first game after the Big Red Mishap...