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Where he can and must make distinctions is in the personal circumstances of the deceased. Feinberg's actuarial tables show that a 30-year-old decedent with a wife, a child and a stockbroker's $80,000 annual salary will suffer $2,521,248 in economic losses. But life isn't a statistical table. The stockbroker's death meant more lost income than a window washer's, but what if the window washer cared for a mentally retarded child? How much should his family be compensated for lost services...
...holy grail of speech science--making conversation with a computer easier than typing--is still a long way off. Today's software makes lots of mistakes, and its main market is users who have no other option, including office workers who suffer from carpal-tunnel syndrome. Yet progress is being made, and Kanevsky's technology is sneaking into daily life. His employer, IBM, and competitors Nuance and Speechworks offer enterprise products that replace those endless touch-tone-phone menus with a computerized attendant that can connect you directly to the right person. The big users are banks and airlines...
...line Guardian Council for approval. The hard-line clerics who dominate this unelected body have vetoed scores of pro-reform legislation in the past, but the President's bill would place them in a quandary: reject the legislation and risk an explosion of popular protest, or approve it and suffer the inevitable consequences. If their recent track record offers any guide, the Council may duck the confrontation by approving the bill, then seek to undermine its implementation via their control of the judiciary...
...every five people who suffer a heart attack gets severely depressed. While that may seem unsurprising--certainly a brush with mortality, being rushed to the hospital and having to take a bucketful of medications could throw anyone for a loop--there's growing evidence to suggest that something more complicated is going on. Men and women who have clinical depression, for example, are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack later on, while coronary patients who become severely depressed are three times as likely to develop further heart problems or die. Yet doctors often seem reluctant to treat depression...
Wilderness Act, is land "where man himself is a visitor and does not remain." Wilderness areas are critical for protecting biodiversity: tropical rain forests alone, which cover 6% of the planet's land area, are home to more than half of all known species. But many wild regions suffer from human encroachment, and species are vanishing at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs. Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, along with Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, who set up the Whole Earth Catalog, among others, are raising money for a 25-year, $5 billion...