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...there are ways to reduce your own dust loading - and it's important that you try. Dust mites, which feed on shed skin, produce allergens that are known triggers for people suffering from asthma. Same goes for cockroach dust, especially in cities. No one needs much convincing about the wisdom of getting rid of arsenic, and the good news is that about 80% of it can be removed simply by cleaning floor dust regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...level at which they will cease to be sustainable, and unemployment will stay high for many years. Our country is on pace to follow Japan down a path of aging and debt-ridden decay, and there seem to be few good solutions on the horizon.  The conventional wisdom says that after years of spending without any awareness of our limits, we must now enter an extended period of frugality. Yet, in reality, these desperate times call for greater spending, as opposed to cutbacks. In order to reduce the sky-high unemployment that threatens our country?...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Spending Now for a Better Future | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Democratic Senators whisper that the Administration is clueless about how to get things done. Liberal bloggers openly express contempt for what they say is incompetence compounded by misguided priorities. The respected Washington wise man Les Gelb, former head of the Council of Foreign Relations, channeled the Beltway's conventional wisdom when he wrote that a full-scale personnel shake-up is the only way Obama can save his presidency. The media has largely shaken off its febrile Obamamania and adopted a "can't this gang shoot straight?" posture toward nearly every Administration action, reverting to the standard reflexive skepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Fend Off the 'Failure' Attacks? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...concludes with the following words of wisdom: “We're going to create a uniformed 'Sixth Man' section. Don't be that 'guy.' Trust me. You don't want to feel left out and dress completely different than everybody else...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Spirit in Black and White | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...itself. Mason is a computer scientist by training, and codes and mazes pattern his stories. In one tale, Theseus, famed conqueror of the Minotaur, slays the beast only to wander forever in a labyrinth. In another, sirens seduce Odysseus not through their beautiful tunes, but through the promise of wisdom. “As their songs crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that... behind everything... was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack,” the wily-eyed hero recalls. As Odysseus searches for a definite...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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