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...cited a mutual lack of respect between the two sectors as the barrier to their working together but emphasized a need for to join their resources to help children...
...friends, go to meetings or attend parties. Wider keycard access will also remove the burden for upperclass students who have to descend to their Houses’ outer doors to let in their friends. Making Houses accessible to first-years will make all lives easier and remove the unnecessary barrier between first-years and their upperclass peers...
...mobile phones and their view is very balanced: there are no established health effects." Yet Professor Salford's work may soon have lawyers heading back to court. Unlike most studies done so far, Salford and his team at Lund did not focus on cancer, but on the blood brain barrier (BBB) that protects the brain from the chemicals, toxins and proteins that circulate in our blood. Over 25 years ago, notes Louis Slesin, editor of New York-based Microwave News, U.S. army and government scientists showed that microwaves from sources other than phones could open up the BBB. "This stuff...
Remove the language barrier, and Yao is your standard 22-year-old jock. He loves pizza, ribs, wings and Frappuccinos--in addition to his mother's soup and dumplings. He wears a bracelet from his basketball-playing girlfriend in China. He spends much of his free time sleeping and the rest jumping between gratuitously violent computer games and gratuitously violent action flicks. (A recent night in with Yao: watching The Bourne Identity on DVD while playing Counter-Strike. "He sat in the corner with his computer," says Pine, "and said, 'Just tell me when there's a fight.'") In Shanghai...
...flip side: many CEOs in particular are not disposed to listen to someone they don't consider a peer. "There's still a pecking order in the boardroom," says the Council of Institutional Investors' Teslik. It will be up to new directors to breach that barrier. Munoz, for his part, says he would not join any board that seemed resistant to change. "It's not that difficult to tell whether someone is sincere about wanting to include you in the decision-making process," he says...