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...seasons, Google Flu Trends was 97% to 98% accurate in tracking the disease. And because Google's analysis is in real time, its estimates of cases come about a week or two before those of the CDC. "Each flu season for the past few years, we see a sharp uptick in flu-related queries at the beginning of flu season," says Google Flu Trends' Ginsberg. "One to two weeks later, the official reports come out and show a similar uptick. But because we are able to release estimates in near real time, we can get data out faster while still...
...juxtaposition of ubiquitous plastic toys and brutal violence may seem downright strange, but there's something eerily familiar about LEGOs that brings issues like waterboarding into sharp focus. Says Legofesto: "The incongruity between the immoral and horrific acts and events depicted and the smiley-faced childrens' toy creates a tension." Legofesto says she decided to recreate images of torture and violence out of LEGOs due to the reluctance of media organizations to publish enough actual, real-life images of what she views as criminal acts. The images range from the death of a protester at the recent G-20 meeting...
...Capitol Hill, however, legislators from both parties expressed reluctance to unconditionally bail out Zardari's government, expressing sharp criticism of his handling of the fight against extremism in his country and skepticism over the Obama Administration's claims that Islamabad if finally getting serious about that fight. At the Holbrooke hearing, Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman of New York said, "Pakistan's pants are on fire, but ... they don't recognize the risk [they...
That's not to say that very strict restrictions wouldn't have some effect on slowing the virus. In a 2006 study, Harvard epidemiologists John Brownstein and Kenneth Mandl examined the effect of the sharp reduction in air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks on that year's flu season. They found that the initial flight ban and general decline in air travel in the weeks after delayed the onset of the flu season but did little to reduce the overall number of infections and deaths that year...
...world where the distinction between cablecos and telcos has become meaningless, cable operators have an advantage because it's cheaper and easier to retrofit their networks to support voice than to retrofit telephone networks for video and high-speed Internet. The sharp decline Bell Canada has sustained in its core fixed-line business is mirrored in telcos around the world. In the U.S., cable companies added 4.9 million voice subscribers in 2008, bringing their total to 20 million. By contrast, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest lost 10.9 million voice customers last year...