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...School: "There's no way the consumer can know if any of these beverages are really doing all that they claim to do." Many of the putatively healing potions contain little more than trace elements of the prominently mentioned herbal ingredients, says Mirkin. For example, in order to take aboard the dosage of St. John's wort that clinical tests have shown to reduce stress, one would have to drink six bottles of SoBe Wisdom a day. Which SoBe wouldn't mind...
...Russian cosmonauts aboard the soon-to-be-launched International Space Station find themselves running short of borscht, there will be a very good reason: the technicians on the ground ate it all. The Russian space agency has been running on fumes since the end of the cold war, but never more so than in the past few years. Employees at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan often go unpaid and sometimes slip away at the end of their shifts taking pilfered electrical components with them. Some of those employees, less interested in fencing stolen goods than simply eating a decent...
While Senator and first-American-to-orbit-Earth John Glenn once again gained national attention last week--this time for his role as a geriatric guinea pig aboard the space shuttle Discovery--Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was busy investigating Glenn's sleep patterns...
Swissair was the pioneer in installing such devices aboard its planes, with the first one taking off in January 1997. Each seat has a video screen that pops out of the armrest like a tray table. It can be used to play video games, select music and watch an assortment of movies. In addition, there are three types of gambling available--overseen by the Swiss National Lottery--including slots and keno. Losses are capped at $200, while winnings can go as high...
...most advanced interactive-flight system." Yet the complex and costly devices ($2 million or more per plane) require a web of wires from each seat to central computers, which generate a lot of heat. The question is whether the system--approved by the Federal Aviation Administration but installed only aboard Swissair jets--could have generated enough heat to trigger the disaster. Salvage crews have pulled up evidence of heat damage above the ceiling that straddles the cockpit and first-class cabin, which is where the heart of the in-flight-entertainment system was housed. Each unit uses Microsoft Windows...