Heat treatment for asthma gets positive review
The procedure, called bronchial thermoplasty, uses a flexible scope inserted through the nose or mouth into the lungs to apply radio waves and heat to the walls of airways. … The therapy reduces some of the underlying smooth muscle tissue and limits the ability of airways to constrict or tighten inasthma attacks.
CBC News — So simple?
Canada tumbles in global tech study
The World Economic Forum’s “networked readiness index” measures the range of factors that affect a country’s ability to harness information technologies for economic competitiveness and development.Canada slipped from sixth place in 2004-2005 to11th placein the 2005-2006 study … The United States, which topped the previous rankings, slipped to seventh
CBC News — And who is surprised by this?
Brits in the Gulf: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
Britain’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who has become a vocal critic of the war in Iraq … wrote, “Before people get too carried away, the following is worth bearing in mind. I write as a former Head of the Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Iranians claimed the British soldiers had strayed into Iranian territorial waters. If they had, then the Iranians had every right to detain them for questioning.
“The difficulty is that the maritime delimitation in the North West of the Persian Gulf, between Iraq, Kuwait and Iran, has never been resolved. It is not therefore a question of just checking your GPS to see where you are. This is a perfectly legitimate dispute, in which nobody is particularly at fault….
“There is nothing outlandish about Iranian claims, and we have no right in law to be boarding Iranian or other shipping in what may well be Iranian waters.
Barry Lando on The Huffington Post — Now what?
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
The big mystery to me is: why don’t more people start startups? If nearly everyone who does it prefers it to a regular job, and a significant percentage get rich, why doesn’t everyone want to do this?
Paul Graham
The Julie Amero case has been getting plenty of attention lately, after prosecutors (and the local press) in Connecticut condemned a local substitute teacher after the classroom computer she was using was overrun with porn popups from spyware. For this, she was facing 40 years in jail.
Techdirt — There’s only one good way for this to end… will it happen?
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