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This recliner with electronic biosensors can measure things like weight and blood pressure when a person just plops in it to watch television. The readings are transmitted by phone line to a control center where a nurse reviews them and can chat with the patient about his condition from the screen of his TV set. Commwell, Inc., the Illinois firm that makes the chair, hopes to lease the system to customers for $150 a month beginning...
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...steroids," and it helps Alzheimer's patients in the early phases of the disease who stop calling friends for fear they can't remember voices and names, a form of isolation that can lead to depression, accelerate the disease and put them in a nursing home. An Intel phone comes with a screen that projects a caller's picture and name along with a note typed or recorded by the two parties after their previous phone conversation, describing what they had discussed. The memory joggers make the patient more willing to keep in touch with loved ones...
...year ago, at age 64, with more than 40 years in the record business and a dozen Top 40 hits under her sequined belt, former Motown star Martha Reeves arrived at the moment every professional entertainer dreads. The phone didn't ring as often as before, and the concert bookings were thinning out. So Reeves did the same as millions of people in their 50s and 60s who are facing the end of a career they love: she looked around for a new one that could put to work the skills she had honed in her first. And that...
...several hundred thousand" troops would be needed in Iraq and was, in effect, fired by Rumsfeld. "We had a responsibility to speak up," said a general who served in Iraq. "You can say what you will about Paul Wolfowitz, but when he was DepSec, he was always on the phone with those of us who were downrange, asking how things were going and what we needed. But [while they were serving], even some of the generals who later turned on Rumsfeld would give the answer they thought they were supposed to give him: Everything's fine...