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...weigh the multiple child-abuse cases in which parents and guardians systematically torture toddlers and children, starving, beating or burning them to death under the watchful eye of social service bureaucrats...
...according to the GAO, it has contributed to a litany of abuses. One resident lost a third of his body weight over seven weeks. During this time, the nursing home failed to weigh him, give him prescribed painkillers or alert his doctor to his worsening condition. Another resident had a bedsore, and the doctor ordered the bandage to be changed twice a day; it was unchanged for nearly two weeks. A third nursing-home resident was brought to a hospital, where the patient was found to have had a broken leg for at least three weeks and the nursing-home...
Nobody likes being accosted by a clipboard-carrying activist, however noble the cause. But now you can weigh in on an issue in peace. A visit to www.e-thepeople.com (it launches Aug. 1) lets you search by topic for a petition you might want to sign, start your own petition or send a letter to almost any official, from a local parks commissioner to a U.S. Senator. Not sure to whom to vent? Search for the right recipient; if that office doesn't have an e-mail address, your message is faxed. Afraid of spam? Don't be: your e-mail...
...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...
...last week's congressional hearing, called to weigh the impact of Venter's venture on the Genome Project, Washington University geneticist Maynard Olson predicted that the Venter map will have more than 100,000 "serious gaps"--regions where the fragments are improperly aligned. "Yes, you'll get a holey map," agrees Rockefeller University professor Norton Zinder, who was chair of the first Genome Project advisory committee. "But we will fill the holes." He anticipates substantial benefits from Venter's plan. "Craig," he says, "has jump-started the sequencing...