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...When we refer to media at Common Sense, we're talking about everything from Internet and cell phones and video games and social networking sites to traditional media like movies, TV, music and books. What we found in these studies, however, is that there's almost no research on new digital media, on social networking platforms, on Internet usage, on how kids text message. That's one of the conclusions we draw in this report. There's a tremendous need from a public health standpoint to do research on these areas, because they will affect public policy and basic good...
...Lowdown Any reader knows he's in trouble when the author finds it necessary to earnestly overexplain the book's title. Shadows at Dawn, in this case, is meant to refer not only to the hour the massacre took place but to the "murky, often elusive nature of historical truth," while "Borderlands" refers both to the contested area separating the U.S. and Mexico and also to the demarcation between "history and storytelling...
...many Europeans, however, thinking less about the U.S., and more about the rest of the world - about the projection of European power, hard or soft - is not a priority, and it's important to understand why. Europe is a special place at a special time. In France, they refer to the 30 years of economic expansion and modernization after 1945 as the trentes glorieuses, but you can make a case that it is really the last 20 years, since long-accreting rust began to degrade the Iron Curtain in the spring of 1989, that represent Europe's true Golden...
...wheezing and shortness of breath, which frequently get confused for asthma, may signal a host of other health problems, including the a respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety and congestive heart failure. In fact, congestive heart failure is so often misdiagnosed as asthma that lung experts often refer to it as "cardiac asthma," Edelman says. "All that wheezes is not asthma...
Illinois Democrats like Obama have also learned that their Midwestern base provides some inoculation against charges that dog their coastal colleagues. When Republicans call Nancy Pelosi a "San Francisco liberal" or derisively refer to Upper West Side and Cambridge lefties, they tag those Democrats as ideologically extreme and culturally élitist. Politicians from Chicago can be just as liberal as those from New York, New England and California, but they come from the much-fetishized heartland, which makes attacks on them a tougher sell to swing voters. And they have an advantage within the Democratic base as well: while party...