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| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:00:00 EST Ebbers's golden years–behind bars |
| Bernard Ebbers's 25-year prison sentence represents a major victory for the government in its efforts to prosecute corporate malfeasance. For all the talk, few executives before today had been hit with big jail terms for their roles in the accounting scandals that plagued Wall Street at the start of the decade. |
| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:00 EST Learning to love being part computer |
| On July 7, 2001, Michael Chorost's world went silent. The hearing aids he'd worn since becoming partially deaf since birth as a result of rubella no longer helped. Several months later, Chorost opted for an operation to implant a tiny computer-about the size of three stacked quarters and called a cochlear implant-in his skull behind his ear. Another small computer and microphone, attached outside his skull like a refrigerator magnet, captures sound and beams it to the internal computer via radio wave. The implant digitizes the sound and sends the signal through thin metal electrodes directly to the nerve endings in his cochlea. |
| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:00 EST Cellphones and driving don't mix |
| Next time you feel the urge to phone home while cruising down the freeway, you might want to fight the impulse. Drivers using cellphones have four times the risk of being involved in car accidents that result in hospital visits, according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. What's more, chatting it up or sending a text message up to 10 minutes prior to a collision placed a driver at increased risk. And those hands-free devices? They won't lower your risk of a crash. |
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| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:44:07 EDT Bombing suspect's uncle: We are shattered |
| He was part of their family, part of their neighborhood and they are trying to understand how Shahzad Tanweer could have had any part in the bombing of the Aldgate Underground station in London that killed seven people. But he has been identified by police as a suspect. Bashir Ahmed, Tanweer's uncle, is concerned about the family's future. "How is the community going to treat us now?" he wondered. "I don't think we can survive here much longer like this." |
| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:37:49 EDT Coroner: Toddler killed by LAPD bullet |
| The 19-month-old toddler who died during a gunfire exchange between police and her father was killed by a single police bullet to the head, the Los Angeles County coroner said Wednesday. |
| Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:04:56 EDT Emily arrives in Windward Islands |
| Tropical Storm Emily churned toward the Caribbean on Wednesday and was expected to pass over the Windward Islands later in the day, the National Hurricane Center said. |
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