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...frame that belies her durability. She was in the military as a private first class until 1996 and has experienced separation before, when her husband went to Bosnia. But like many of the other wives connected to the Tomb Raiders platoon, based in Giessen, Germany, she has built a virtual fortress around her home while her husband is away. It is a wall held up by willful ignorance, busy days caring for two small children and a rare kind of friendship with other military wives...
...whether its creator is online and using AIM at the moment. Click once, and the object of your attention will be sent a request for an instant message (which he or she can safely refuse, since Love.com masks your real AIM user name). The two of you could be virtual-speed-dating faster than you can say, "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...
...virtual procedure is not a walk in the park. You have to fast for a day and cleanse your bowel before any colonoscopy. And if the doctor finds a polyp that must be removed, you still have to undergo a conventional colonoscopy--right away, ideally, so you won't have to prep twice. That's why virtual colonoscopies probably work best for those at lowest risk of colon cancer--with no symptoms and no family history of the disease, says Dr. Perry Pickhardt, the radiologist who led the study while at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda...
There's another important point to consider. Doctors agree that polyps measuring 10 mm or more in diameter need to be removed, although during a conventional colonoscopy, even smaller, very low-risk growths are taken out. In a virtual colonoscopy, current practice is just to watch them until the next procedure to see if they grow. "Some patients and some doctors aren't going to be comfortable leaving anything behind," predicts Dr. Thomas LaMont of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. So while the virtual colonoscopy is providing ever better results, the conventional colonoscopy is still the gold standard...
...This document is virtual, but all of us are real, and our heartbeats are real." YOSSI BEILIN, former Israeli Justice Minister, on the proposed Geneva Accord, a detailed plan for peace in the Middle East, spearheaded by him and his Palestinian counterpart, a former Information and Culture Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo...