An unauthorised modification made to equipment used during keyhole knee surgery contributed to a man's death, a jury has ruled.

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Dr Shields's device, however, is a simple modification of the sort of equipment that is already used to detect multiple photons, and should thus be easy to deploy.

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Before they do actual harm by voting on various resolutions aimed at repudiating President Bush and further undermining his wartime leadership, they should be obliged to sit through the sort of sobering, behavior-modification program to which courts assign those found operating heavy equipment while inebriated.

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