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Barrett started giving his students CDs on which he had recreated the rhythm and nature of various kinds of heart murmurs. He used a mechanical simulator to produce the purest patterns (and to avoid disturbing a lot of patients). But when he asked some of the students whether they were listening to their CDs, they told him, as he recalls, "Gee, Dr. Barrett, no one listens to CDs anymore. We've uploaded everything onto our iPods...
...Summers and his staff managed to avoid the issue, for the most part, in the first days of the controversy, focusing instead on the president’s public statements and whether he should apologize. But in the weeks to come, calls for the transcript among professors and the media would reach a fevered pitch and test the limits of Mass. Hall’s defiance...
...about an eighth of an ounce a week. But that's just a very general rule, and for many people, the threshold can be lower. And when it comes to crack--crystallized and smoked instead of snorted--addiction, often from the first use, is much harder to avoid...
...addition, we would have a chance to stop the epidemic spread of a mutated avian-flu virus by containing it at its point of origin. A few mining towns in Colorado were able to avoid the 1918 flu by barring outsiders for a few months during the epidemic. Australia mostly escaped because of a strict quarantine of incoming ships...
...full floor debate in the Senate until the week of January 23rd. That will give advocacy groups time to target Alito with ads. It will also put the confirmation vote closer to President Bush's State of the Union address Jan. 31, something Democrats would have preferred to avoid. The best the Democrats can say about the hearings now is that they're glad so few Americans were paying attention...