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...virtual colonoscopy...
CONTEXT Research shows that the new technique is just as effective at spotting cancerous growths as the traditional scope exam. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine tested similar numbers of patients and found that the virtual exam detected 123 advanced polyps compared with 121 located by the conventional method...
...high-rolling, peripatetic gourmands who've already ticked off the checklists of the world's destination restaurants, the expanding calendar of culinary festivals offers another ideal way to stimulate the curious palette. For starters, there's a virtual guarantee that headline chefs like Nobu Matsuhisa or David Bouley will be cooking dinner themselves rather than leaving the work to gifted minions. Master classes can show you how to produce espumas with studied nonchalance and learn the newest culinary techniques as they emerge from the fervid imagination of Ferran Adrià or Heston Blumenthal. What's more, says René Redzepi...
Since his election to the Elysée on a platform of deep and sweeping reform, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly pledged a "rupture" with the past habits, attitudes and endless calculating that have frozen so many of his country's previous governments into virtual immobility. One area he's done just that is in assembling his government under the ideologically blind policy of "ouverture" - the "opening" of cabinet posts to erstwhile leftists opponents whose talents Sarkozy believes will serve the nation well. But while initially applauded by many pundits for ignoring traditional hostilities that have previously made bipartisan...
...soldiers in Karbala were a small team of Army trainers and civil affairs officers working with local officials and area police. That ended in January, however, when an attack by unknown gunmen left five U.S. soldiers dead. Since then, all the population centers in southern Iraq have become virtual blind spots for U.S. forces struggling to keep tabs on the weapons and fighters thought to be moving through the area. The military's provincial reconstruction teams carry on some work in southern Iraq. And in Diwaniya, a town east of Najaf, military trainers continue to work with local security forces...