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Citing studies showing people tend to trust other people with physical features like their own, the software company Intopii introduced a new online service during the run-up to Finnish parliamentary elections in March: users could upload photos of themselves to the Intopii site and have a facial-recognition program identify the candidate they most resembled. Also: in the election Jyrki Kasvi, the incumbent representative from Uusimaa and a big Star Trek fan, successfully defended his seat; among the information at his own site is a statement of his political philosophy translated into Klingon.
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Joining the list of people who received treatment after being assaulted only to discover they had an unrelated serious medical problem: While refereeing a recreational hockey game in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, in February, Dale Neudorf took a cross-check to the face so vicious that police went in search of the alleged attacker; a subsequent CAT scan revealed a brain tumor. In the same month a Manhattan doctor declared Jennifer Chow to have beaten thyroid cancer, which was spotted in October after a mugger nearly choked her to death.
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