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Sept. 27, 2010 ... American Medical News
When Mike Sevilla, MD, sees young patients at his Salem, Ohio, family practice, he often finds them text messaging or listening to music on portable media players.These tech-savvy patients may not ...
ama-assn.org
Health
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timoreilly
Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
ColophonThe animal on the cover of Building Android Apps with HTML,CSS, and JavaScript is a maleo (Macrocephalonmaleo), an endangered bird with a current population between5,000 and 10,000 that is ...
oreilly.com
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biz
The Origins of Good Ideas
In the year following the 2004 tsunami, the Indonesian city of Meulaboh received eight neonatal incubators from international relief organizations. Several years later, when an MIT fellow named Tim...
online.wsj.com
Health
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stephenfry
Raaa for the RA! « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
PassionsBlogging down oneâs thoughts can sometimes end in bogging them down. Political events, ideological disagreements, rants, apologies, defensive screeds and coverage of techno launches, poli...
stephenfry.com
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Reuters
Japan seeks damages as China trawler row lingers
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Chris BuckleyTOKYO/BEIJING |Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:59am EDTTOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan said it will ask China to pay for damage to its patrol boats suffered in a collision w...
reuters.com
Politics
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TheEconomist
Products & events
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief. By V.S. Naipaul. Knopf; 256 pages; $26.95. Picador; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukA CLUE to the rather meagre fare offered by V.S. Naipaul’...
economist.com
Living
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TheEconomist
Products & events
Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud. By Martin Gayford. Thames & Hudson; 256 pages; $40 and £18.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukA PATIENT observer of his sitters’ ...
Art & Entertainment
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briansolis
Five myths about Facebook
Movies often have Web sites, but it's not so often that Web sites have movies. Facebook, of course, is not just any Web site; in the 6 1/2 years since founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg st...
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Technology
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TIME
Why Parents Are Less Likely to Spoil their Chubby Children — Or Are They? – TIME Healthland
It's no secret that overweight kids are typically not the most popular kids on the block. Nor is it news that kids can be mean, forming groups of “haves” and “have-nots,” gossiping, ostracizing the...
healthland.tim...
Health
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Number10gov
Independent driving and riding section of the practical test : Directgov
Independent driving will become part of the practical driving test in Great Britain in October 2010. Find out what independent driving is and how it will be assessed during the practical driving te...
direct.gov.uk
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leighsales
The New Yorker debuts on the iPad : The New Yorker
In the first years of this magazine, technology was only a modest factor in its production. Harold Ross, the founder of The New Yorker and its first editor, often roamed the Algonquin and pressed h...
newyorker.com
Education
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dangerroom
UN plan for 'alien ambassador' a case of science fiction? | News
If a Martian, proverbial or otherwise, had landed on earth in the last 24-hours the media had some practical advice. Or so it seemed. According to the Sunday Times, and numerous other media outlets...
guardian.co.uk
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mikkohypponen
A Silent Attack, but Not a Subtle One
Majid Saeedi/Getty ImagesIranâs Natanz nuclear enrichment site is the focus of speculation about the intended target of a broad and unsubtle cyberattack.AS in real warfare, even the most carefull...
www10.nytimes.com
Politics
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mikkohypponen
Nokiaâs New Chief Faces Culture of Complacency
Minh Uong/The New York TimesA few years before introduced the , research engineers at prepared a prototype of an Internet-ready, touch-screen handset with a large display, which they thought could ...
Business
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IDC
Developers see Google's Android operating system surpassing Apple's
Click photo to enlargeChristian Agila, left, manager at Verizon Wireless Hialeah superstore, shows Daniel Motola, the newest Android smartphone, the Samsung Fascinate, September 10, 2010, in Hialea...
mercurynews.com
Technology
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dangerroom
STUXNET, and UFOs: Cyber Warfare and Alien Extraterrestrial Invasion
Gary S. Bekkum is an independent 'occasional' rogue journalist, author, and researcher of material that blurs the distinction between fiction and reality.He is the author of SPIES LIES and POLYGRAP...
americanchroni...
Education
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australian
Lords of the Rings director Peter Jackson rails against 'bully-boy' Australian unions
OSCAR-winning director Sir Peter Jackson has accused an Australian union of bullying that could force filming of The Hobbit out of New Zealand.The New Zealand director of the Lord of the Rings tril...
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Art & Entertainment
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dangerroom
Soldier ‘Kill Team’ in Afghanistan Photographed Victims | Danger Room
Today begins a wrenching legal process: the military trial of five soldiers in the murder of three Afghan civilians in Kandahar earlier this year. Already, there’s a shocking disclosure: there are ...
wired.com
Politics
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australian
Liberal Peter Slipper another to be let slip by Labor as it searches for a Deputy Speaker
MP Peter Slipper finds something to smile about in Question Time. Picture: Gary RamageSource: The AustralianLABOR appears to have failed to get a second Liberal defector to agree to boost its vote ...
Politics
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dangerroom
U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like and software that...
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