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...Senate committees will hold hearings on broadcast decency. So the story swung from action (video delays instituted on the Grammy and Oscar ceremonies) to overreaction. Under pressure from affiliates, NBC cut a scene from Thursday's ER that briefly showed the breast of an 80-year-old heart-attack patient. "I think our viewers are intelligent enough to make their own decision as to whether their children should watch or not," complained executive producer John Wells. Hollywood is a favorite target in election years (in '92, Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown; in '96, Bob Dole...
...technology developed by NASA and designed to cool only the head shows great promise as a way to reduce the severity of neural damage. The researchers hope such a helmet may someday be used by emergency personnel to slow the progression of a stroke and lengthen the time a patient is eligible for clot-busting therapy...
...officer was dispatched to University Health Services (UHS) to take a report of an unruly patient. The officer reported the patient is now fine...
...says. Much of the offshore money is legitimate, but it's certainly a tempting political target. The U.S. alone estimates that it loses between $54 billion and $70 billion in tax revenues to tax havens every year. Over the past five years, public pressure and patient behind-the-scenes negotiations by the 30-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) has led many offshore centers to commit, at least in theory, to close some loopholes and exchange sensitive tax information. Of the more than 30 tax havens originally identified by the O.E.C.D. in 1998, only five have...
BRAIN IMAGING Finally, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh announced that they had successfully developed a procedure that allows them to peer into the brains of Alzheimer's patients with positron emission tomography (PET) scans to see telltale plaque deposits. Before now, doctors could not track the progress of these plaques until after the patient died, when the brain could be autopsied. Using the new technique, doctors may be able to begin treatment long before the first symptoms appear...