| Google Releases Health Service Details
Google Inc. won't sell ads to support a new Internet service that stores personal medical information, CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday in the search giant's first detailed comments about a venture that has raised privacy concerns. Schmidt described Google Health as a platform for users to manage their own records, such as medical test results and prescriptions. It would be accessed with a user name and password, just like a Google e-mail account, and could be called up on any computer with an Internet connection. A primary benefit, Schmidt said, is the portability of records from one health care provider to the next. He repeatedly said no data would be shared without the consumer's consent. "Our model is that the owner of the data has control over who can see it," Schmidt said at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Letters to the editor: Dec. 22
We are proud that New Mexico has been at the forefront of repeal efforts, and we congratulate New Jersey legislators and Gov. Corzine for making this sound public policy decision. In New Jersey, a special commission was appointed to thoroughly study the pros and cons of the death penalty - and to recommend measures that could fix the state's death-penalty statutes. The study found there was no fix for the death penalty. In the words of one state senator, who voted to reinstate the death penalty in New Jersey in 1982, it is a "false and ineffective choice for taxpayers and residents who have lost loved ones. It has for too long been sustained by mythology and fiction, propped up by outdated rhetoric when courage and common sense would have served us better." The New Jersey commission ultimately recommended repeal of the death penalty, because it squanders millions of tax dollars, does not deter crime, delays healing for the loved ones of murder victims and, despite many safeguards, carries no guarantee against our worst nightmare - the execution of an innocent person.
Govt dithers over Nabha thermal plant
The government has been dithering over the construction of 1200-MW thermal plant proposed to be set up at Nabha in Patiala district. Initially, the government had planned two mega thermal plants at Nabha and Talwandi Sabo (1800 MW). While a notification for acquiring 2,100 acres under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act has been issued for the Talwandi Sabo thermal plant, the notification for the Nabha plant has been withheld. Director of the company, which has been entrusted the construction of the plants, K.P. Kansal said they had sent the case for issuing notification for acquiring 1,196 acres for the Nabha thermal plant to the government. However, till date the government has not acted on it, he added. Sources in the PSEB said the government was dithering over the Nabha plant in the face of a stiff resistance by the farmers whose land is likely to be acquired.
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