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...reduced, even in extremis, to his animal impulses - was rectified in the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake, where wily psychopath Robert De Niro dies several times. The same year, The Silence of the Lambs brought the genre its essential wrinkle of the evil genius, beating the criminal-justice system even as he bites its face...
...Area had only 75 accelerometer sensors, which locate quakes and determine their intensity. Today, there are more than 200, which allow seismologists to more immediately pin down the size and strength of an earthquake as it happens. Many of those sensors have also been equipped with global-positioning system add-ons, which can determine the rate at which a quake has caused a fault to slip. Scientists in the Bay Area have also dug several deep trenches that expose rock layers that have been deformed by quakes - that helps give them a better sense of how often earthquakes...
...have a health-care system today that is geared toward the management of acute episodes instead of the appropriate preventive measures you see in other countries," says Dr. John Rock, dean of Wertheim College. "Because of the lack of family doctors, we're not dealing with obesity; we're dealing with the expensive diabetes hospitalizations that result from the obesity." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...year off to work at a health clinic for the poor in Puerto Rico, he's leaning toward primary care. "After that experience," says Leahy, "I think I'd rather be the doctor who impacts a patient's health behavior before it ends up impacting the health-care system." It might not be as glamorous or lucrative as doing breast implants on Ocean Drive, but in cities like Miami, it could end up saving a lot more lives and a lot more money...
...Koizumi, 67, served five years as Prime Minister, from 2001 to 2006, earning a reputation as a reformist who reinvigorated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2005 election around the issue of privatization of the national postal system. Now lending his voice to the iconic Ultraman King character, the elder of the clan on the television series Ultraman, Koizumi will take his leadership to another level, in film and outer space, with lines like "Rise again, warriors of the Land of Light! For peace and justice!" Such is a rallying cry Koizumi's old party could probably use about...