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...protest rallies, traffic short-cuts and even news events onto his personal Internet site. Garfield belongs to a small but growing group of video bloggers, or vloggers, who are turning the Web into a medium in which it's possible that someday anyone could mount original programming, bypassing the usual broadcast networks and cable outlets. A recent entry "was a news story about a local ice rescue, and this [month] I'm going to cover the Democratic Convention," says Garfield, who posts one or two new clips every month. "With cheaper digital cameras and cell phones that can also shoot...
...city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach the office, a dim, dingy room with a desk, a sink, a scale and an ancient examination table covered by a dusty black cloth. Everything in the once fine clinic was looted or wrecked a year...
...approved NeutroSpec, a technique that could make it significantly easier to diagnose appendicitis. That's good news because accurate diagnosis is a problem. Half the 700,000 cases of suspected appendicitis in the U.S. each year lack the usual symptoms of fever and pain in the lower right abdomen, and 15% to 40% of all appendectomies prove unnecessary because the appendix turns out to be normal. The new technique uses a radioactive tracer that binds to an infection-fighting white blood cell. Doctors locate the tracer using an imaging device called a gamma camera. In trials, the technique diagnosed nearly...
...public to take a tougher line against Saddam, it turned to its top clearinghouse for secret information, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), to produce a dossier on Iraq's supposed WMD. The JIC, in particular its chairman, John Scarlett, willingly rose to the task. But the contrast between its usual role of soberly sifting shards of ambiguous evidence and the starker hues needed to make a public argument resulted in what Butler dryly called a "strain" on the spies. Euphemisms with a sting in the tail like this abound in the Butler report. The September dossier omitted nearly all warnings...
...Every summer fashionistas from Milan to Montauk gravitate to one "it" handbag, but this season three silhouettes?all from British design houses?are dominating the red-hot luxury leather-goods market. And they're not the usual logo-laden suspects...