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...result of the scandals, several of Australia's biggest ISPs pulled out of the filtering-software trials and have urged the government to drop the plan. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material but a much wider range of issues, including what the government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste...
...that measured? It's based on the cost of a measure called the "quality-adjusted life year" [QALY]. A QALY scores your health on a scale from zero to one: zero if you're dead and one if you're in perfect health. You find out as a result of a treatment where a patient would move up the scale. If you do a hip replacement, the patient might start at .5 and go up to .7, improving by .2. You can assume patients live for an average of 15 years following hip replacements. And .2 times 15 equals three...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • annual average of 86,629 emergency room visits as a result of falls caused by pets or pet-related objects is reported...
...French president kicked off his three-nation swing through the Great Lakes region in Kinshasa, where he praised President Joseph Kabila for reaching agreement in January with leaders of neighboring Rwanda to launch joint military operations against militia groups fighting both regimes from strongholds in eastern Congo. The result, Sarkozy noted, has been an a halt to the massacres that have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (See pictures of war and displacement in Congo...
Taiwan's trial of the century began Thursday as former president Chen Shui-bian showed up to court to face corruption charges that could result in a life sentence. Chen is accused of taking $9 million dollars in personal kickbacks on a state-sanctioned land deal, embezzling over $3 million from a state fund and laundering millions to overseas accounts. Chen has already admitted his wife wired $20 million in leftover campaign funds overseas, but he insists his case is one of political persecution by the new Kuomintang (KMT) administration, which has been forging closer ties with China since coming...