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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...registering the thousands of high-speed pellets that collided with its skin. The speed and density of the pellets confirmed that they were ice. Analyzing the precise composition of that ice has taken years, but the results, published this week in the journal Nature, were worth the wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Salty Waters of Saturn's Moon Hint at Life | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...Foreign Minister. "It's a great land of opportunity," he said, smiling. In his spare time, he writes film screenplays. "It's a hobby," he said, refusing to reveal the plot to his current work. "This is something for the next stage in my life." Hollywood will have to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Lieberman Raps U.S. on Iran, Settlements | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...thin pouch attached to a segment of the large intestine in the lower right abdomen, but often, when the diagnosis is less than clear, they err on the side of caution, recommending surgery - the alternative is to risk a burst appendix, which in fact happens frequently enough while patients wait for test results. According to past studies, somewhere between 3% and 30% of all appendectomies may be in patients who do not actually have appendicitis - conditions often mistaken for appendicitis include constipation, gastroenteritis and ovarian cysts, for example - and as many as 45% of surgeries happen too late, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Urine Test for Appendicitis | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

...famously foulmouthed chief of staff, brother Ari a similarly silence-deficient Hollywood agent - he interrupted to ask why. Because she had Hodgkin's disease and her platelets were below 20,000, the team explained. Emanuel still had questions: Was there evidence for that protocol? Don't some hospitals wait until 10,000? Why 20,000? Because that's what we do here, one doc replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Cut Health-Care Costs: Less Care, More Data | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

...plays hardball with them, but that's partly because the online-book world - unlike the real-life Amazon - isn't particularly biodiverse yet. If publishers aren't in a position to check Amazon directly, the market is, or it will be. There will be some painful scenes while we wait for that to happen, but already Google - a company that never met a loss leader it didn't like - has announced its intention to start selling e-books before the end of the year. Simon & Schuster has just announced a plan to sell digital copies of its books through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business? | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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