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...year, however, things have gone horribly wrong with India's polio elimination campaign; 325 cases have been reported already, and at least 23 of them have been fatal. What's caught people's attention is that 70% of those infected with polio this year are Muslim, even though Muslims account for only 13% of India's population. What's even stranger, and frightening, is the reason: some Muslims believe that the polio drops are part of a conspiracy to sterilize their children, and are refusing to let them be vaccinated...
Second Life is a virtual world which allows users to name themselves and choose the appearance of their avatars. Participants receive a certain amount of free currency (Linden dollars), but can only purchase further currency by linking their account to a credit card. Second Life users interact in real time: typing conversations, shopping for clothes and real estate, and, as of this fall, attending a Harvard class...
...Under the Black Flag,” David Cordingly’s fantastic account of pirates and piracy, will not only keep any casual reader interested, but also provide its larger-than-life subject with a proper, scholarly history. This easy read will change anyone’s attitude from the safe, conservative “Pirates are sweet” to the knowledgeable, reflective “Hey, pirates actually were quite sweet...
...function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that the men who were categorized as “high hostility” performed worse on every examination than less hostile men. Even when confounding variables such as smoking habits and Body Mass Index were taken into account, hostility still emerged as an independent predictor of the rate of pulmonary deterioration. While many researchers have examined the link between stress and cardiovascular disease, this study is the first to investigate the long-term effect of negative emotions on the lungs. Lead researcher Laura D. Kubzansky, an assistant professor...
...that no further recognition was needed. Yau, meanwhile, according to the article, enlisted a pair of colleagues and, in an attempt to win prestige in the Chinese math community, had them put together a more technically rigorous, and nominally more complete, version of the proof. When he read this account, Yau was outraged. A few weeks later, his lawyer sent a letter to Nasar, Gruber, and the fact-checker who worked on the article asking for immediate assistance “in undoing, to the extent possible, the literally world-wide damage” the story had done to Yau?...