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Bush, China's Hu face off
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President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao tackled contentious
issues on
Thursday, from climate change and Iran and North Korea to recalls of
tainted
Chinese food and individual freedoms in China.

For doctors, diagnosing gets a technological boost
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According to a 2003 review of autopsy studies, doctors misdiagnose 8% to
24%
of the time. Cognitive errors, such as latching onto a diagnosis that
seems
the most likely without considering other possibilities are among many
root
causes. The solution for some is technology. Doctors are increasingly
using
the Internet, even search programs as basic as Google, when they're
stumped.

Union chief: Officials should have known Utah mine was unsafe
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Government mine safety officials should have known that Utah's Crandall
Canyon
mine was unsafe and closed it before the collapse in August that killed
nine
people, a union official told senators Wednesday.

# posted by John @ 9/06/2007 08:58:00 AM