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...idea in medicine. A significant number of women with a positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Doctors? | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Similar kiosks can already make prints from digital cameras, but this is the first one to work for both digital images and film. Created by Applied Science Fiction, a private company based in Austin, Texas, the kiosk lets shutterbugs use simple touch-screen commands to rotate, zoom, crop, adjust brightness or contrast and remove red eye. It can also produce enlargements on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faster Photos | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...network. "I was looking at their firewall from the inside," Mitchell says. "All the things they were using to protect themselves were useless," because he could have deactivated them at will. In the middle of Mitchell's talk--during which he projected in front of the audience his computer screen showing the network's firewall setup commands--one participant leaped from his chair and ran out of the room. "I asked him where he was going," Mitchell recalls, "and he said, 'I'm going to call my network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating the Snoops | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...adds up to a two-hour-and-42-minute movie, which is nine minutes longer than Philosopher's Stone. Although Chamber of Secrets' pacing is more lively than the first film's, it still drags at times. Columbus is intent on getting as much of the book on screen as possible, and the movie inevitably creaks under the weight of Rowling's imagination. Columbus, in fact, was accused of being too slavishly faithful to Rowling's first book. This time, he also lets his own imagination run riot from time to time. In the new film, Quidditch - the ballgame played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side of Potter | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

When they auditioned behind a screen and their sex was unknown, they were more likely to be hired...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Weigh Job Discrimination Laws | 10/25/2002 | See Source »

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