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Despite some jitters, few are panicking yet. Jean-Michel Six, head of economic research at Standard & Poor's in London, reckons the dollar will fall to between $1.42 and $1.45 against the euro by mid-2007, but even at that level, "we do not expect any significant impact on overall growth" in Europe. German machinery companies are currently operating at over 90% of their potential capacity, the highest since 1990, and are thus well able to weather a weaker dollar, says Olaf Wortmann, an economist at the German Engineering Federation...
...patient, the test will feel and look no different from a standard ultrasound, in which a probe is used to peer deep into breast tissue and create an image using high-frequency sound waves. It takes two minutes longer to do a second scan and analyze the results with special software. The initial ultrasound finds the lump, according to Dr. Richard Barr, author of the study. The second scan probes the lump's characteristics, including how much it moves or stretches--which is where the technology gets its name...
...biopsy. Barr already has that in the works. He is preparing a multicenter international trial with 2,000 patients that will start in January and take about a year. In the interim, women should not forget a yearly mammogram starting at age 40. For now, it remains the gold standard of breast-cancer screening...
...easy to see. Once BigBellys have been installed, the stinky, overflowing trash cans found on urban corners are no more, replaced by what looks like a large newspaper-vending machine that collects rather than distributes. Because the unit can hold at least four times as much as a standard can, trash needs to be collected less often...
...Tasered too!": That was the yell of an angry police officer when a concerned onlooker stepped forward to protest the shocking of a student with a Taser in the UCLA library. The incident took place nearly two weeks ago, when a student refused to produce his ID during a standard check of library premises by police...