Word: tooled
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...know when you joined Twitter how powerful a communication tool it would become? -Jenny Johnson, London I didn't know anything about it when I joined. I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...both came in wanting mastectomies based on the MRI findings," says Dr. Anthony Lucci, a surgical oncologist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Neither of the MRIs showed cancer, just abnormalities, says Lucci, but more and more patients are requesting an MRI not as a diagnostic screening tool but as a prognostic one. And in those situations, "they are much more likely to request a mastectomy if the MRI reveals an abnormality," he says...
...women continue to insist on having an MRI? Part of it has to do with the culture of technology: we believe that newer and more is better. Part of it also can be traced to a me-too spillover from the diagnostic arena. As a diagnostic tool, MRIs can be useful in picking up what mammograms may not find - which is why the American Cancer Society, for example, recommends both screens for otherwise healthy women with a strong family history of the disease and younger women with dense breast tissue...
...civilians. But you cannot say that the U.S. President should be tried for this because he is the Commander in Chief of U.S. forces," al-Bashir told TIME. "Not even the [U.S.] head of Chiefs of Staff would be put to trial." The ICC, he said, "is a tool to terrorize countries that the West thinks are disobedient...
...past four years, Beemer has asked consumers which type of electronics item they would be most likely to buy for their children for school. Computers were the most popular item every time. This year, the most popular item was calculators, which makes sense. They're cheaper, and a tool for parents who want to teach their kids to be budget-conscious bean counters. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...