Posted on 22 November 2009. Tags: assisted suicide, Belgium, books, Brain, car crash, Carrie Coons, case, coma, Coma Science Group, coma tests, computer, conscious, consciousness, Department of Neurology at Liege University Hospital, Doctors, Dr. Steven Laureys, euthanasia, experts, eye responses, false comas, family, friends, Germany, Glasgow Coma Scale, hi-tech scans, Hillsborough disaster, life support, medical advances, misdiagnosed, motor responses, neurological expert, New York, paralyzed, Patient, re-evaluation, right-to-die debate, Rom Houben, scientific paper, severe traumatic brain injury, therapy, Tony Bland, UK, United Kingdom, University of Liege, vegatative state, verbal responses, Zolder
A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.
He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 September 2009. Tags: Alexandria, Amazon.com, Angus & Robertson Bookstore, Ann Arbor, australia, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Blackwell Bookshop, books, bookstores, Canada, Chris Anderson, copyright, digital copies, documents, Edmonton, Egypt, Espresso Book Machine, Google, Google Book Search, libraries, london, Manchester, melbourne, Michigan, Northshire Bookstore, On Demand Books, paper copies, public domain, revolution, Shapiro Library Building, texts, universities, University of Alberta, University of Michigan, Vermont, Wired
Google lets you custom-print millions of books
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- Google Book Search is letting readers turn digitized texts back into paper copies
- Google scans millions of books and turns them into searchable documents
- Books can be printed on demand by a special machine in about 4 minutes
- The machine is only in a few dozen bookstores so far Read the full story
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