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So I was procrastinating my paper on cervical cancer at school and surfing news headlines. To summarize what I read, dogs can detect cancer by sniffing your breath, the face-transplant recipient is using her new lips to start smoking (which will likely cause the new tissue to die), the Bush admin wants Google to reveal what one million Google users searched for with the search engine, and people are getting RFID enabled computer chips implanted in their hands so they can unlock their doors and enter passwords for their email simply by waving a hand.

It's a bizarre yet entertaining world in which we live. But the dogs give me hope. (That, and the future reward I will give myself after I finish nursing school, which will be a return trip to Amsterdam.) I wonder if cats could similarly sniff out cancer. I bet they could -- if you could train them....
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