AP News Wire

SAO PAULO, Brazil  —  An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.

Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.

Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.

Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: "It is better to lose a tooth than one's life."

Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before it could attack again.

The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper says the boy received four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be sacrificed.

"Because it's much shorter than Everest and I wanted to return alive." — William Rees Bryant today after a successful trip to the summit of Harney Peak (and back)

Airport scanners see through clothes: whole body imaging is now being used at Miami International Airport.

(from Reader's Digest)

Anatomy of a Doctor's Bill

Just how much of the $100 your doctor charges for taking 30 minutes to investigate your stomach pain goes into his pocket? After paying the bills, he gets less than half. The breakdown, according to Robert Lowes, senior editor at Medical Economics:

$3.50 for malpractice insurance

$3.50 for equipment, repairs, and maintenance

$6 for supplies, including gowns, tongue depressors, and copy paper

$7 for rent and utilities

$11 for office expenses, such as telephones, accounting fees, advertising, medical journals, licenses, and taxes

$28 for secretary, office manager, and medical assistant salaries and benefits

$41 Amount that goes into the doctor's paycheck

Over the course of a year, that adds up to $155,000, the annual salary of the average family physician [If the doctor works a 40-hour week, at $82.00 an hour that leaves room for a five week vacation]. That number rose just 3.3% between 2002 and 2006, while expenses increased nearly 25% over the same period.