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DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various River Houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub, and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you’re sophomores...
...fiction writer, an avant-garde performer and a celebrity journalist who happens to be dating Fiona Apple. His new book The Double Life Is Twice as Good is a hodgepodge of stories, articles, diary entries and even a cartoon about the time he found a cockroach in his bathtub. The book's central narrative, an old-fashioned private-eye story with a film-noir-ish feel, has been turned into an HBO series that is set to debut in September and star Jason Schwartzman. TIME talked to Ames about writing, his new TV show and why he isn't nearly...
...Seattle recently concluded there's no way to give a pregnant woman enough of the antibiotic to be effective. Kidney function is so revved up during pregnancy that even in high doses, amoxicillin is excreted before it can work its magic. Think of it as trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open, suggests Jason Umans, an internist and maternal-fetal pharmacologist at Georgetown University. "In emergencies, you always hear, 'Treat the pregnant women first!'" he says. "The joke should be 'Yeah, how?'" (See how the FDA classifies drugs and their effects on pregnancy...
...high would we have to pile the sandbags? It depends where you live, since the ocean would rise higher at some points around the Earth than others. Why? Because adding water to the oceans is not like adding it to a lake or a pond or even a bathtub, where the level rises everywhere uniformly. A lake or a pond or a bathtub is not a 6.6 sextillion-ton sphere of rock and dirt spinning through space. The Earth is, and that makes all the difference...
...fossils indicated points where the coral died when the seas rose too fast for the organisms to adapt; each time the seas stabilized, the corals grew back, but at higher elevations and further inland, a process geologists call backstepping. The result is something like the ascending rings on a bathtub that indicate rising water levels...