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File Compression Can Expand Mammography's Power
Digitized mammograms are actually interpreted more accurately by radiologists once they have been "compressed."Though compression strips away much of the original data, it still leaves intact those features that physicians need most to diagnose cancer effectively. Perhaps equally important, digitization could bring mammography to many outlying communities via mobile equipment. Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
"This exhibition is a retrospective look at the man and his portraiture, whose progressive ideas about social justice, representative democracy, and America's role as a world leader have significantly shaped our national character."Features a chronology of the public career of Roosevelt, and annotated images of artwork of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider, U.S. president, big game hunter, and in other situations. From the National Portrait Gallery. Apple Preparing iPod Touch With Camera, Microphone: Source
A source with inside knowledge of the situation claims Apple will release an iPod Touch with microphone and camera in two to three months. The implications for voice-over-IP could be staggering (especially for telephony providers).
 Secret Of Smallpox's Success May Lead To Bioterror Cure
In disease, as in war, offensive strategies can become weaknesses, if the defenders see the enemy coming and compensate for its weapons. By manipulating what is perhaps the most devastating trick in cellular weaponry of pox viruses like smallpox, ASU virologist and Biodesign Institute researcher Bertram Jacobs believes that he can turn the biochemical machinery of the pox viruses against themselves -- and protect the public against catastrophic bioterror attacks. Steal This Download
David Thomas ran a site for hackers and credit card thieves, while the FBI ran him. Get Kim Zetter's groundbreaking series on the cybercrime underground as a printer-friendly PDF. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Messenger RNA Are Lost In Translation: Study Challenges Current View
Scientists have discovered that messenger RNA predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally altering a common understanding of how gene expression is controlled within the cell. Recovering Pompeii
Artists in ancient Pompeii painted the town red 2,000 years ago with a brilliant crimson pigment that dominated many of the doomed city's wall paintings. Now scientists from France and Italy are reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry why those paintings are undergoing a mysterious darkening. The synchrotron light of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) has provided new insight into this process and what produces it. MRI Detects Early Heart Damage In Patients With Sarcoidosis
To detect heart damage early in patients with the immune system disorder sarcoidosis, who are at elevated risk of dying from heart problems, magnetic resonance imaging is twice as sensitive as conventional methods, according to a study by Duke University Medical Center cardiologists.
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