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...epidemic. The IOP intends to conduct an Institute-wide effort to address the declining interest of youth in public service. One of our resident fellows, Politics Online President Phil Noble, will aid with these action-based projects. He plans to work with students to create an online tool-kit for activists who want to spread their message with the Internet. Noble will also work with students to encourage public officials to use the Internet to serve and connect with young constituents...
...Sach's tool for the evening was his understanding of the economic implications of the health crisis. "We're not going to solve the problem until someone is ready to help pay the bill," he said...
Hardly. IM is one of the Internet's true killer apps. It's free, and it's instant (duh), but what the RCC recognized is that IM isn't just about passing notes; it's a powerful communications tool. You can call instant meetings. You can keep tabs on your friends (and enemies) with a "buddy list." You can swap data files, such as MP3s and digital photos. Most IM services can even carry voice communications, and some are available on PDAs and pagers...
...first study - both reports appeared in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology - tried to quantify the risk from pediatric CAT scans. CAT is a high-tech tool that uses multiple X-ray images to create 3-D views of a patient's internal organs. CAT scans clearly help doctors diagnose and treat disease, but as two recent studies suggest, the radiation dose they deliver also poses risks, especially for children and particularly since the use of CAT scans to diagnose appendicitis, for example, has become so widespread...
More astonishing still is how South Koreans have embraced the Internet as a tool for living, American-style. In what was a tradition-bound, dirt-poor farming country barely a generation ago, South Koreans are going online to network, day trade, date and prowl for sex. Ambitious start-up companies are churning out content to meet the billowing demand. Computer gaming has become a professional sport, with sponsorships, prize money and battles performed in public. "South Korea is a laboratory," says Daniel O'Neill, executive chairman of QoS Networks, a Dublin Internet company that plans to set up shop...