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...JOSEPH A. WORRALL, MD, RDMS / FAIRBANKS CLINIC FETAL SCAN: Thicker neck skin can be a sign of Down syndrome...
...follows Google’s run-in with the British pornography site Booble.com, whose homepage replaced the two trademarked slanted “o’s” with, well, things that aren’t letters. After Google complained, Booble changed its presentation.More recently, Google proposed to scan several thousand books from the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including Harvard, to create a virtual library. Recalling his chat with the founders, Sidney Verba ’53, Carl H. Pforzheimer Uniersity Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. had serious doubts over handling massive amounts...
...stacks, a Lamont-like reading room, two group-study rooms, wireless internet, and a circulation and reserves desk. The reading room includes a variety of study spaces, including sofa chairs, work spaces, power outlets, and adjustable lighting. The library also has a self-service scanner that allows students to scan documents and save them to a USB flash drive or e-mail them for free. Additional changes include shorter hours, a smaller book collection, and a reduced staff. According to Emily H. Kelly, evening coordinator of the Quad Library, these changes reflect a shift in the library?...
...Getting Inside Your Head," you reported on scanning techniques that help determine how our brains work. You noted that corporate marketers could use neuroimaging technology to scan people's brain functions as new products are tested. Philosophers and theologians should be alert to these innovative methods for looking inside how the mind works. Those who grapple with the interrelation of mind, soul and body must consider more seriously the implications of the latest information available in brain research...
Google resumed its controversial book-scanning initiative on Tuesday, despite the objections of several publishers and two pending copyright-infringement lawsuits. The initiative, “Google Print,” is a multi-year project to digitalize the contents of five of the world’s largest research libraries, including Harvard’s. Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library have also partnered with Google on the effort. In August, Google temporarily halted the scanning of works that are under copyright protection but said that scanning would resume...