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...scanners that use digital image processing for the early detection of disease. Singh explains that a doctor could take digital images of a beating heart and compare them with images of a healthy heart and determine if there is an anomaly, often long before symptoms of an impending heart attack appear. Last year he moved from San Francisco to Erlangen, Germany, to run Siemens' global image- and knowledge-management business. "I have never come across any ceiling--visible or invisible," Singh says. "If you look at a 10-year span for somebody born in India, working...
...images might seem, the story behind them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli internal-security...
...disturbing number of women captured and interrogated by Israel recount stories similar to that of Riyashi, of feeling compelled to carry out an attack to restore her family's honor. In one notorious case, Wafa Samir al-Biss, a 22-year-old burn victim from Gaza, went routinely to an Israeli hospital where she received free medical treatment as a humanitarian gesture. Militants convinced her and her family that since she was disfigured she would never get married and that she was better off becoming a martyr. A surveillance camera at Erez checkpoint captured al-Biss's anguish and desperation...
Given the apparently abundant supply of women martyrs--willing or not--it is remarkable that suicide attacks against Israelis have been so infrequent in recent years. In March 2002, for instance, militants carried out twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community...
...Vatican wasn?t laughing, and on Tuesday its official newspaper L?Osservatore Romano went further, lashing out at the remarks as a ?vile attack? and ?terrorism.? "It's terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love,? the paper wrote...