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...juxtaposition of your article about the abuse of foster children with the one on the high-tech, billion-dollar telescopes seemed to show exactly what takes priority. We are willing to spend huge sums of money on space research but cannot find enough funds to keep our children from abuse, starvation and exploitation. But somehow money is found to finance prisons for the damaged survivors of our foster-care programs. As a society we have to reorganize our system to protect the future generations, or all that expensive space research will count for nothing and we will be lost...
...critique of the exhibit at the New York Public Library "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World" [IDEAS, Nov. 6], Robert Hughes said, "This is a show about failure." However, there are thousands of successful utopian communities in operation today. Monasteries and other religious communities exist in all parts of the world from Tibet to America...
...want a laugh, my angst-ridden American friend? In Canada, the leader of the right-wing Canadian Alliance Party, STOCKWELL DAY, proposed an easier way to decide whether to hold a referendum: if just 3% of voters sign a petition. In response, a TV show circulated an Internet petition to get the government to demand that Day change his first name to Doris. After three days it received more signatures than required--although it may have helped that anyone could sign a number of times...
Cheney arrived at George Washington University Medical Center at 4:30 a.m., and shortly afterward, doctors performed an electrocardiogram and a blood test. The ECG, which looks at how well the heart is beating, showed no change from Cheney's previous ECGs. The blood test, which measures the presence of special enzymes released by the heart during a heart attack, showed no evidence yet of any damage. But doctors know it often takes several hours for cardiac enzymes to show up in the blood after a heart attack, so follow-up tests were ordered...
...time, eight years ago, PET (positron emission tomography) machines, which can reveal subtle metabolic processes such as tumor growth, and CT (computerized tomography) scanners, which show precise anatomical details, were already in widespread medical use. But doctors, especially cancer surgeons, were often frustrated in their attempts to match the two different scans to determine, for example, the precise location of a tumor in relation to an organ or to the spinal column. There seemed to be no better way than simply "eyeballing" the two separate images...