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...committee hearing, to the green room to the power lunch, thrilling cocktail party and then ends with Ambien so you can sleep off all the coffee you drank during the day to get through all that... then great. If you don't, then you'll have to work twice as hard to keep that life from taking control...
...widespread use of DDT to control malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reversed itself. But instead of authorizing indiscriminate spraying of fields and ponds--which had a disastrous effect on wildlife--the WHO is focusing this time on spraying DDT on the inside walls of homes once or twice a year in malaria-prone areas. Why? DDT is particularly effective at repelling and not just killing mosquitoes, which helps protect enclosed spaces. Environmental organizations aren't thrilled by the idea, but two of the largest have endorsed limited spraying, figuring that some risk to the environment is justified...
...case. Researchers at Imperial College London gave volunteers particulate detectors and had them walk, bike, drive, bus or taxi their way up and down streets in central London, taking a total of 584 individual trips. To everyone's surprise, riding in a taxi resulted in the worst exposure--nearly twice as much as walking. The suggested explanation: taxis tend to get stuck in traffic surrounded by other pollution-belching vehicles; pedestrians are a little farther from the exhaust pipes...
...have a violent reaction to bad food? And what about the risks you carry with you all your life? The father and grandfather who died of coronaries in their 50s probably passed the same cardiac weakness on to you. The tendency to take chances on the highway that has twice landed you in traffic court could just as easily land you in the morgue...
...Patriot League player of the week, senior guard Jose Olivero, paced the Mountain Hawks (2-5) with 15 points but was only 5-of-17 from the floor.Trailing 41-22 at halftime, Lehigh scored on eight of its first nine possessions to start the second half. Twice, the Mountain Hawks made it a two possession game early in the period, the latter occasion at 51-45 with 14:18 left.“I thought Harvard really did a great job of setting the tone with their level of intensity, and we had to respond,” Lehigh coach...