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FANTASTIC VOYAGE Looking inside the intestine to diagnose, say, colon cancer isn't easy. But now, as if in a sci-fi flick, doctors have developed a tiny camera in a capsule that patients swallow and send on a painless info-gathering voyage through the gut. As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer. Downside? Doctors can't maneuver the capsule to get a closer look. And FDA approval isn't expected for years...
...anodyne that it's easy to imagine that after five minutes, they ran out of things to say and were scanning the offerings on SpectraVision. Neither said he was sorry for the hatchets and sharpened screwdrivers each hurled during the primaries; the vice-presidential offer and rejection were painless; and substantive disagreements over issues like campaign-finance reform, the size of tax cuts and the experience necessary to conduct foreign policy were skipped over lightly. "You don't want one of these things to go badly," says McCain. "The goal is to get it done without any controversy...
...real threat to that business model, however, is client-to-client-based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...
...message from all this is really painless. As I tell my aching friends, an informed patient is the best patient, and the sooner you speak up, the faster you'll be on the way to recovery...
Most students found it quick and painless...