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...million people a year. Once considered predominantly an affliction of the wealthy, the prevalence of heart disease has been growing in the developing world - 80% of heart-disease deaths now occur in low- and middle-income countries, which has got global health workers and epidemiologists considering better ways to screen, track and treat the illness...
...looks like screening, at least, could get a whole lot cheaper and faster. A team of U.S. researchers publishing this week in the medical journal Lancet finds that simple, inexpensive tests for cardiovascular risk factors - performed in less than 10 minutes, using a scale, a tape measure and a blood-pressure check - are every bit as effective at determining heart-disease risk as more expensive procedures involving laboratory-based tests. It's not exactly a do-it-yourself kit, but it can help doctors screen patients more quickly, leading to potentially more effective treatment - in both the developed and developing...
...DVDs, let’sconsider the late 70s when home videowas just becoming a reality.It was then that a “format war”erupted between competitors VHS andBetamax for supremacy in home mediadistribution. Sony pitched Betamax bytouting its ability to record from onetelevision station while the screen actuallyshowed another.The battle even resulted in a landmarkSupreme Court case, Sony Corp. v.Universal City Studios. The latter party,along with several other major studios,claimed that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies...
...security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes go all spiral-like and the dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very cool effect, if you don’t value your eyesight) get the hell away from that screen. For once, the duo that makes up Gnarls Barkley—Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway)—appear in the video in person, and not as ink blots (“Crazy”) or as fleas perving on a leggy housewife...
...real. There aremothers out there who just aren’t goodmothers, and that doesn’t mean we haveto judge them.”Theron said she wanted to give a voiceto someone like Joleen, who is a type ofwoman she feels is rarely featured on thebig screen. “We want women to be eitherthe Madonna or the whore: you’re eitherthe great nurturer or you’re the prostitute,”she said. “Well, that’s not who weare. We’re real people...