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CONAN O'BRIEN, in his final episode as host of The Tonight Show...
Thousands of patients like deBronkart are learning as much online - and from one another - as they are from their doctors. These laypeople are banding together and starting websites to help figure out which practitioners to see and which hospitals to avoid, which clinical trials show promise and which experimental treatments are bunk. But as people take more control of their health care - joining an empowerment movement many are calling Patient 2.0 - plenty of doctors are worried about the quality of the information that is being assessed as well as patients' ability to understand it. Or as Duke neurology professor...
...year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade unions and the IRA, the movie reduces the story from a panoramic conspiracy to another one-guy-against-the-system thriller, and Edge loses its political edge...
...admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament. It's like that moment when you see your father catching his breath on the stairs and it dawns on you that someday he will die. (And, by extension, so will you.) So other outlets are hoping the Times will show them a way to rage against the dying of the light, if not with the pay wall then with its plan (similar to the efforts of companies like Time Inc.) to develop content for the Apple iPad, the $499-$829 gadget journos pray will somehow make digital news as cool...
...those 17 million readers, and a blogosphere that often seems to consist mainly of links to New York Times articles, show that there's still a desire for an arbiter of truth. The idea that I can believe it because I read it in the Times was never 100% true, nor was it true for any other news organization. But the paper represented a certain baseline of agreed-on information. If that no longer exists, what distinguishes a news report from an e-mail rumor your uncle forwarded...