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...Basically, it's a web 2.0 interactive environment where people can collectively brainstorm and work towards developing campaigns to help assert the rights of the media against both governmental and corporate pressures and influences. [PrisonBlogs.net is another project where prisoners] will write to a central p.o. box to obtain a sponsor, then their sponsor will write to them and let them know, 'Here's my address, and you can send me letters or art [for posting].' This is will be an opportunity for the public to see firsthand what it's like in the prison system - both state as well...
...ways of looking inside the human body: the not-always-precise X-ray, which exposed patients to radiation, and surgery. Physicist Paul Lauterbur, a co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, helped pioneer the use of MRI technology-- previously used largely to examine chemical structures of substances--to obtain clear, detailed images of human tissue. Doctors now prescribe more than 60 million MRI exams annually...
...family's tin shanty, or from the clouds of mosquitoes swarming among the surrounding mangroves. He just hopes it doesn't worsen because he hasn't enough money to feed his family, let alone pay doctors' bills. For the past three weeks, the father of three has failed to obtain his regular $2 an hour construction work; a messenger has just dropped by to tell him the family are soon to be evicted and their home is to be bulldozed. "I couldn't believe it. It was like something hit me here," he says, tapping his heart and slowly rocking...
...been asked to provide fingerprints and DNA samples. But Shields made clear the Pakistan squad, which left Jamaica last Saturday, are not regarded as suspects in the case. "All of them are witnesses," says Shields. "The reason why it took so much time is that we had to obtain statements from all of them. They were all with Bob in one form or another during the afternoon of the match, and indeed on the way back on the bus, and then of course at the hotel... So, we questioned all of those players and anybody else that was in contact...
...Virtually everyone in town seems to agree. Montfort's city council has appealed for the Malians to be released and offered a path to legalization based on the merits of their situations. Their employer has sought work permits that would allow the 23 Malians to obtain resident visas, noting that productivity in his nearly 700-employee facility has fallen over 10% since their arrest. Petitions demanding the Malians return gave garnered between 4,000 and 6,000 signatures; Montfort merchants have expressed their solidarity by tying white strips of cloth outside their stores; and marches and rallies continue drawing large...