Sushi: Because of health concerns and growing demand, 50 to 60 percent of sushi in the United States is frozen at some point in its journey from the ocean, according to wholesalers. And rare is the sushi restaurant that tells customers upfront that they may be eating fish that has been in deep freeze for up to two years. Most would be even more surprised to learn that if the sushi has not been frozen, it is illegal to serve it in the United States.

Lobster: SUSHI SAMBA on Park Ave. South in midtown is the latest New York restaurant to import the practice of eating live lobster. Called "Whole Live Lobster Sashimi," the dish involves bringing the lobster to the table, splitting it down the middle and eating it as it dies, a process that lasts about 20 minutes.

Squid: It was still moving. Its tentacles would stick to your fingers and the pigment on its skin was pulsating. Its eyes moved too. On the other hand, it was chopped into pieces. So I'm not sure whether it was "alive" or just really fresh. It may seem a bit gross, but squid in particular tastes much better and very different when it is VERY fresh. The taste diminishes without minutes.

The problem with the TVs was identified by the Health Service Journal. It reports today that the sets come on automatically at 6am or 7am and close down at 10pm. Patients pay £3.20 a day for the full range of programmes, with reduced rates for the over-60s and a free service for children.

But those not wanting to subscribe do not escape: they get trailers for the service and messages from the hospital authorities instead.

A company spokesman said the failure to provide an off button was "an accident" that was rectified in more recent installations at the bedsides of 38,500 patients in another 83 hospitals.

Science is the most interconnected of all human activities, they say, and requires a new series of maps to chart the changing scientific landscape.

Knowledge has left books and libraries and is now changing more rapidly than ever before, say researchers.

New ways of mapping science offer the prospect of new discoveries, they add.

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"Ultimately, I'd like to see a map of science in schools, as common as the political world map," Börner says.

"'Continents' would represent the diverse areas of science, and closely related areas would reside on the same continent. Teachers might say, 'Let's look at the new research frontier in sector F5.' Students could say, 'My mom works over there.'"