| Grandpa’s lifesaving belt
LeAnn Bell had no reason to be concerned as the birth of her second child approached. She had a perfect ultrasound and had passed all her prenatal screenings with flying colors. And when James was born at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in late July, he seemed happy and healthy. That is, until he started to fall asleep."It was when he calmed down that everything hit the fan," LeAnn said.James stopped breathing. Alarms went off. Doctors rushed in. Four hours later, he was being rushed to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, and after another day and a half, he was taken by ambulance to Oregon Health & Science University.LeAnn and Jeff Bell soon learned that their son had been born with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, commonly known as CCHS. It is an extremely rare, spontaneous genetic disorder.
ICANN Considers Plan to Stop ‘Domain Tasting’
During January 2007, 51 million domains were registered, but 48 million were deleted, or about 94 percent. "There was a net increase of 3 million names but most of the rest were just being 'tasted'," the report said. The fee is also expected to put the brakes on another practice, known as "front running." Some ISPs and registries sell records of what domain names people have searched for, and those domains will end up being "tasted," said Susan Wade, spokeswoman for Network Solutions, a registry. Often the tasters will try to sell those domains at inflated prices, she said. Network Solutions has tried to stop the behavior by registering a domain name for four day after someone conducts a search for one on its Web site. Critics have decried the approach, saying that it forces customers to pay Network Solutions for a domain or face further competition when the domain goes back on the market.
Bring out the beast: body hair in China
If a plurality of ambiguous and often contradictory meanings was ascribed to hair in late imperial China, body hair most commonly symbolised the fragile border separating the human from the beast. As in Christian countries up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, boundaries between man and ape were blurred in imperial China: learned literature, to take one example, compared red-bearded Europeans to monkeys, or macaques (mihou). Some animals living within the realm of the empire, on the other hand, were described as wild men with a long tail: although orang-utans (xingxing) and baboons (feifei) were covered in black hair, they were sometimes held to speak human language. Hairy men (maoren) were also reported in the imperial annals. From 1555 onwards, the local gazetteer of Fang county in Hubei province repeatedly mentioned people from the mountains covered in long hair; these reports inspired several vernacular stories by the eighteenth-century poet Yuan Mei.
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