http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07printer.html?th&emc=th

Mr.Vyomesh I. Joshi, the head of Hewlett-Packard’s $24 billion printing empire has spent years disputing the notion that people will print less as they do more on their hand-held devices. This week, he will see his ideas put into action as H.P. introduces a fleet of printers with Web access, their own e-mail addresses and touch screens. These products should open up new ways for people to print from Web services like Google Docs, and from smartphones and devices like the iPad from Apple.

Mr. Joshi is going back to his roots as an engineer — as a young H.P. researcher, he figured out a way to make ink cartridges fire 45 million drops — and relying on new technologies, not slick marketing. But still, he will have to prove that customers will change their behavior and print more if given the right tools. That, Ben Reitzes, an analyst with Barclays Capitalsaid, is crucial to how investors will evaluate the long-term prospects of H.P.

http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/3-d-printers-go-beyond-paper-and-ink-729557.html

Home computer printers gave people the ability to produce bank statements, concert tickets, holiday cards and party invitations at the touch of a button.

But what if you wanted to "print out" a dinner plate, the leg of an armchair or an eyeglass frame? It may sound far-fetched and futuristic, but plastic extrusion machines that can do this — popularly known as 3-D printers — are poised to enter the home electronics market.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-06-doctorsfees_N.htm?csp=mostpopular

The extra payments include no-show fees of $30-$50 for missed appointments, widely varying charges for filling out health forms for school, work or athletic teams, and annual administrative fees of $35-$120 or more to simply be a patient in some practices, medical associations and doctors say.

"It's not unlike the airlines," said William Jessee, president of the Medical Group Management Association, which generally advises against extra fees that may anger patients or run afoul of insurance contracts. "They've gone from all-inclusive to a la carte. That's what you're seeing with physicians."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060402011.html?wpisrc=nl_pmopinions

When Joseph Reyes and Rebecca Shapiro got married in 2004, they had a Jewish wedding ceremony. He was Catholic but converted to Judaism after they married, and they agreed to raise any children in the Jewish faith. However, after their daughter Ela was born, Reyes began to worry about the fact that she had not been baptized. "If, God forbid, something happened to her, she wouldn't be in heaven," he told me. 

Today, two years after the Illinois couple's bitter divorce battle began, the fight over Ela's religious upbringing involves criminal charges.

http://bit.ly/askWbH

Prescription For Change? What happens in the Golden State this year could have a big impact on the rest of the country.  In less than a generation, marijuana has gone from a forbidden drug in America to a readily available commodity. It started when California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, launching a trend that's now spread across more than a dozen states.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8722182.stm

Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.

Some research suggests the technique can show whether a person is lying if certain areas of the brain "light-up".

http://services.newsweek.com/id/238620

Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences. 'I'm not too worried about oil on the surface,' says one scientist. 'It's the things we don't see that worry me the most.'

It was in mid-May that independent scientists—not any of the officials or researchers working for any of the government agencies on scene at the Deepwater Horizon disaster, let alone BP—first detected the vast underwater plumes of crude oil spreading like Medusa's locks from the out-of-control gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. BP immediately dismissed the reports, and in late May CEO Tony Hayward flatly declared "there aren't any plumes," stopping just short of accusing the scientists of misconduct. Federal officials called the scientists' claim "misleading, premature and, in some cases, inaccurate." Moreover, continued a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, any oxygen depletion in the surrounding waters due to plumes is not "a source of concern at this time," and critics blaming dispersants for the plumes had "no information" to stand on. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco, a respected oceanographer when President Obama tapped her to lead the agency, insists there are no plumes, only "anomalies"—though last week she acknowledged the possibility of oil beneath the surface.

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/06/04/easyjet-unveils-plans-to-install-ash-detectors.html

LONDON — Low-cost airline easyJet PLC unveiled Friday a planned trial of aircraft radar to detect volcanic ash clouds, calling on other airlines to join the research to build up a real-time map of the risk across Europe.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/tornado-hits-southwestern-ontario-exposing-lag-in-warning-system/article1593873/

Lag in technology used to warn of storms exposed as high winds uproot trees, send debris flying.

A rare, short-lived night-time tornado cut a swath through Southwestern Ontario, uprooting trees, gobbling up rooftops and exposing a lag in the technology that has long been relied upon to warn residents about threats from above.

http://www.newser.com/story/91523/breakthroughs-boost-cancer-patients-hopes.html

Breast cancer, ovarian cancer, melanoma yield to new approaches.

New treatments for cancer—breast, ovarian, and skin—raised hopes at this weekend's meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. The findings aren't enough for Robert Langreth of Forbes, who sees "serious questions about whether big drug companies may be rushing too fast." Judge for yourself.