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An Ontario mother has become the first patient in North America to be kept alive using an external artificial lung the size of a CD case while she waited for a pair of donor lungs to become available.

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new site to track the progress of the common cold.

Using the same keyword tracking technology found on Google Trends, it keeps an eye on people searching for queries involving the word "flu" and tracks them both by date and location.

Upscale Shopping on Chicago's Magnificent Mile
Shopping is a woman's territory and the beautiful women of Chicago have staked out a strip of Chicago that is named after both the quality of the shopping and the ladies that shop there; The Magnificent Mile.
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Meagre 1% increase over last year is slowest growth since records began

The web isn't immune to the economic slowdown, according to internet metrics company comScore.

It estimates that the growth in US spending online in October was just 1 per cent higher than the previous year - the smallest increase since it started tracking e-tailers in 2001.

In comparison, August 2007 saw growth topping 28 per cent and as recently as June, shops were enjoying double digit annual increase.