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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with twice the money in its coffers but the same amount in dollars invested in venture capital as other schools, Harvard feels the benefit of these lucrative funds, which paid off 136 percent in 1999, in a proportionally smaller...
...form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they have gone mainstream...
Death is quantifiable, as the data sadly show. What can't be measured so easily is the benefit of closeness, both for the baby and the parent. There is no question that parents and their babies should have as much intimate contact as possible. The problem is how to get it. Dr. John Kattwinkel, who headed a task force on infant-sleep positions and SIDS for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told me that if parents can avoid "loose bedding, pillows, soft surfaces, waterbeds, mattresses that might pull away from bed frames, smoking and drinking in bed," then co-sleeping...
...THAT HEADACHE! Remember when botulism was a bad thing? Still is, if you happen to consume the toxin from a contaminated batch of canned food. But now, years after doctors discovered the toxin's uncanny ability to smooth out wrinkles and quell tremors, a new benefit has been uncovered: botulism toxin seems to alleviate migraine headaches. In a preliminary study, half the patients whose foreheads were injected with tiny amounts of the botulism drug Botox reported that their migraine headaches disappeared--and stayed away for up to four months...
says that advertising can actually benefit children, as long as it does not promote tobacco, alcohol, or violence...