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...scans represent a major advance over the simple X ray, which did not allow doctors to visualize brain tissue at all. Instead of a flat, two-dimensional X-ray picture, CT scanners produce a series of successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring, these "slices" can be combined to create the illusion of depth. The resulting pictures of bone and soft tissue can help doctors distinguish between patients with a psychiatric disorder and those with head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s...
...Part of the "Ring of Fire," the string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean, Kamchatka has more than 100 volcanoes, 29 of them active, along with spectacular concentrations of geysers and thermal springs. For nine months a year, snow blankets the peninsula, and only by July does it melt sufficiently to enable comfortable hiking. Well, let's say relatively comfortable. During our mid-August trek, it rained half the time. Much of the interior is accessible only by helicopter, and tourists who fly into a volcanic site for an afternoon can occasionally be stranded for days...
...AskMen.com Top 10 Ring Tones for Your Cellular Phone. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, at No. 10, won praise because, unlike many of the standard high-pitched cell tunes, it "won't scare the bejeezus out of you when your phone rings" --By Julie Rawe
...Better get your last licks in soon, however. The beluga sturgeon that produce the world's best caviar are under enormous pressure from overfishing, dam building and pollution by the former Soviet republics that ring the Caspian Sea. Most species of sturgeon are in decline?some by as much as 90%?and those native to the Caspian appear doomed. Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put beluga on the endangered-species list?a move that would cut off supply to the world's largest market of consumers. (Americans swallow up to 80% of the annual...
After scoring just his first goal of the season in the second period of a 4-2 loss to Maine on Dec. 15, Turano broke his right ring finger later in the game and was to forced to go under the knife to repair the damage. Turano is expected to return in time of the Beanpot in February...