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Jew Accomplishments in Israel
The Israeli Jew can be proud of their accomplishments in medicine. Israeli Jew scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes. Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
Jew researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure.
My week: Justin Cartwright
To make my day complete The Song Before It Is Sung received a wonderful accolade in the Boston Globe. Whatever they may say about not reading reviews, all writers crave some affirmation that somebody, somewhere, appreciates them. The following day, I was on Radio 4's Today programme trying to explain why novelists get better with age while mathematicians are washed up at 40. I had planned some interesting observations about the nature of truth, the empirical versus the deductive et cetera, but it didn't quite come out as I had hoped. I left White City a little despondent and headed for Bar Italia for the consolations of the best coffee in Soho. My son - the dinner jacket arsonist - rang to say he had heard me and I was very good. He is a fearless critic, so I was cheered.
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Shout out to Da Brat! She celebrated the New Year with Mariah in Vegas. Ahhhhh…Brat is cute. The Mariah New Year's Eve celebration was at TAO and drew stars like Randy "Dawg" Jackson, Kelis, Mario, Nas, and me. Just kidding. PHARCYDE'S ON TOUR? The Pharcyde is getting back together? I know some of you are too young too care or too old to care. I am right there in the middle and I care. With that stated, I heard that some of the members of the Pharcyde are working together and they are doing spot dates. I have to admit that I hate the fact that they had to break up, only to reunite many years ago just to get back to the good old music. Anyway, we'll see. RANDOM QUOTES Kelly Rowland on why she fell out (The Mirror, UK): “I was exhausted.
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Phinney on Phinney
Taylor Phinney's pursuit win at the UCI World Cup in Los Angeles over the weekend sure makes us look smart for putting him and Danny Summerhill on our awards-issue cover. Thanks, Taylor. We gave the 17-year-old Phinney and 18-year-old Summerhill our “juniors of the year" award for their 2007 accomplishments, which included Summerhill's silver medal at the world junior cyclocross championship and Phinney's gold at the world junior time trial championship — the first-ever gold in that discipline for an American junior man. Phinney had begun his second season of racing with a virtual tie for the overall win in the Category 2 Tour of the Gila, racing against men twice his age. He next took the overall win at July's Tour l'Abitibi, then shocked the cycling community in October by winning the national pursuit title at his first-ever velodrome competition.
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