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| Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme)
November 29, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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| Filed under: Columns, Economy, Media  Carl Kasell's career with National Public Radio almost ended before it started.
The newscaster developed vocal polyps about 30 years ago. His doctor recommended surgery. The post-operative therapy of 30-days of total silence was especially difficult for the native of Goldsboro, N.C., to endure, but he had no other choice. "That's when I saw my career flashing before my eyes," Kasell tells DailyFinance, adding that he has maintained his voice because "I have a good ear, nose and throat doctor." Continue reading Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme) Media World: NPR's Carl Kasell retiring as voice of reason (but he'll still rhyme) originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better
November 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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| Filed under: Healthcare  You accidentally filet your finger with your sharpest kitchen knife. Your daughter breaks her arm at a gymnastics meet. Or the fool who's texting while driving totals your car -- with you in it. At some point in life, chances are you'll be taking a trip to the emergency room. Some 120 million Americans do every year. And it won't be a picnic. Before seeing a doctor, expect to wait more than 55 minutes, the average ER wait time across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Show up on a busy night or weekend and the wait could drag on for several hours.
There are plenty of ER horror stories, like the case of 49-year-old Illinois resident Beatrice Vance who arrived at the hospital complaining of chest pains, only to be found dead two hours later, still in a waiting room chair. But this doesn't happen every day. DailyFinance spoke with emergency-room physicians across the country to find out what moves patients can make to prevent experiencing a horror story of their own.Continue reading Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better Emergency Room docs offer inside scoop: How to get treated faster, better originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online
November 29, 2009 at 10:00 am
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| Filed under: Economy  How was Black Friday for retailers? It depends on who's counting.
ShopperTrack, which tracks store sales, reports that spending on the day after Thanksgiving was up 0.5% to $10.66 billion. The distribution of the improvement around the country was mixed, and some regions did poorly. In the West, sales rose 4.7%, but in the Northeast they were down 4.9%. Continue reading Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online Black Friday: A small step for bricks-and-mortar, a giant leap for online originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain
November 29, 2009 at 9:00 am
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| Filed under: Company News, Technology, IBM  The brain is an amazing thing. "It consumes less power than a light bulb and occupies less space than a two-liter bottle of soda," writes Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at IBM (IBM), in his blog. Yet it performs functions no computer can -- many of them quite basic. Think of those blurry, squiggly jumbles of letters and numbers that web sites use to make sure they're dealing with a human being. Your brain can sense, perceive, reason, and coordinate different functions in a constantly changing environment; it can handle ambiguity and abstraction.
There's not an app for that -- yet. But computer scientists at IBM have a longterm goal of achieving cognitive computing, a mindlike artificial intelligence, allowing computers to handle far more complex systems, such as finding patterns throughout the Web, the way humans can pick out a face from a crowd.Continue reading IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain IBM's quest for cognitive computers hits a milestone: Simulating a cat's brain originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments | | |  |
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It's been hard times for the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate essentially doubled as the economy contracted, making the recession from 2007 to 2009 the longest and worst since the 1930s. 
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