Word: scans
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...Britain the line keeps getting higher, says James Davies of Hyperspace, the innovations division of the London ad consultancy Posterscope. On trial at the company's headquarters: a billboard that changes ads depending on the gender of the viewer. Davies says the demo, which takes a superficial body scan to tell male from female, gets it right 95% of the time...
...congested nor did he cough; he had no sore throat or headache, no stomach aches, nausea or vomiting; his appetite and sleep habits were normal; he had no unusual bleeding tendencies and he did not bruise easily. His physical exam revealed nothing out of the ordinary. A quick scan of Seth?s chart reminded me that his family?s medical history was equally unremarkable...
...indeed, I am the doctor - and given their body language, I was clearly not serving my patient or his family. I did a quick scan of my notes, performed a quick mental review of my history and physical and felt confident that I wasn?t missing anything - except of course, what was worrying Seth?s family. I scanned their faces slowly, but each one in turn looked away until I met eyes with the grandmother. She licked her lips, "My cousin?s grandson had a fever and then a nosebleed and he died of leukemia...
...Microsoft indicates that a very large computer screen can be helpful in keeping you focused, especially if you keep your main task in the center, your e-mail to one side and a secondary document or task to the other side. If you arrange it right, you can scan to see who's sending you e-mail and decide whether you need to read it right away or wait for later, lessening the interruption. Managing your old-fashioned desktop is a good idea, too. Having some uncluttered space around you actually makes it easier to unclutter your mind...
Then a CT scan revealed a stone spear point embedded in the skeleton's pelvis, so Chatters sent a bit of finger bone off to the University of California at Riverside for radiocarbon dating. When the results came back, it was clear that his estimate was dramatically off the mark. The bones weren't 100 or even 1,000 years old. They belonged to a man who had walked the banks of the Columbia more than 9,000 years ago. (See pictures of ancient skeletons...