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...after the global media went into spasms after the level rose to 5 on April 29. There are, of course, real dangers to a panicked reaction, beyond the assault of tabloid headlines. When people panic about a new disease, they start flooding the hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them - a phenomenon carried out by the "worried well." They suck up limited resources from patients who are really sick from the virus - or are sick or injured otherwise - and that has a palpable impact on health care. "There are all kinds of adverse effects," says Fukuda...
...willing to prove and ready to prove that this was a joke, and I was wrong.' MULLER, after allowing himself to be waterboarded for seven seconds; he later described the experience as "horrific" and "absolutely torture...
...Shot J.R." cliff hangers - the folkloric American living room, all of us signing off in unison with Walter Cronkite, shattered into a million isolation booths. But watch a live mass-media event with Twitter open on your laptop and you'll see that the futurists had it wrong. We still have national events, but now when we have them, we're actually having a genuine, public conversation with a group that extends far beyond our nuclear family and our next-door neighbors. Some of that conversation is juvenile, of course, just as it was in our living room when...
...could the forecasts have been so wrong? The answer is that we've been tracking only part of the innovation story. If I go to grad school and invent a better mousetrap, I've created value, which I can protect with a patent and capitalize on by selling my invention to consumers. But if someone else figures out a way to use my mousetrap to replace his much more expensive washing machine, he's created value as well. We tend to put the emphasis on the first kind of value creation because there are a small number of inventors...
...During the last weeks of the war, the government consistently charged that the three doctors were providing inflated numbers and wrong information about civilian casualties by government fire within a narrow no-fire zone. On May 12, Varatharajah told the Associated Press that 49 patients were killed and 50 others were injured when shells hit the only functioning medical facility within the zone...