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英语时文阅读 Read to broaden our horizon Boston researchers have developed a supercomputer that they claim can predict with 96% probability if a patient is about to die. The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has linked monitors on its patients to the system, which is said to be better at spotting illnesses than human doctors. It is loaded with information about more than 250,000 people from the past 30 years, drawing on this data to make speedy diagnoses. This speedy disease recognition could allow a quick cure, potentially saving lives as well as predicting patients ‘imminent demise’ (approaching death). The big picture is that were trying to harness the power of big data, said Dr Steve Horng, who is leading the project. If you come in, we can take everything we know about you, both in your current visit and previous visits. We can compare that to other patients with similar conditions, and predict diagnoses you might have in the future. Snake catcher Elliot Budd spent 15 minutes removing a 2.4-metre carpet python from a Townsville U-bend on the weekend, a week after he released a three-metre beauty found coiled in a toilet by tradesmen.?All but the second snakes head and 10cm of its body was inside the toilet piping.?Budd could not unbolt the toilet and said tugging at the creature would have caused it injury.? Its head was just sitting there looking right at you, he said.?After about 15 minutes of just holding him, he just came out by himself.?Budd said he had never pulled a snake from a toilet before the first Townsville incident but hes recently removed snakes from pools, kitchens, offices and gardens.?A reptile expert said it wasnt usual for snakes to go into toilets.?She said they liked moist places with objects to hide under but had become more bold in the search for water during a dry breeding season.?They can fit in under doors, she said. Theres not much you can do. At age 59, the lovely Yasmina Rossi is breaking all the rules of th