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...minefield," says Dr. Scott Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics, allergy and immunology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Researchers don't yet know why these allergies are blooming, but some experts think premature exposure to nut-based products in infancy may be to blame. Others believe the link is genetic. Still others cite the hygiene hypothesis - the idea that more and more parents are oversanitizing their kids with antibacterial agents, causing their immune systems to become more susceptible to allergies...
REDFORD I think there have always been stars. The fact is Hollywood is a business. It's going to get attracted to things that will be sure to make money, as franchise films do, so therefore you don't blame them for that. Now the question is the individuals. For me personally, there are too many great stories out there to do a sequel. So therefore I don't ever want to do sequels. Well, they push, push, push, push. Finally you say no. Let me put it another way: No. [Others laugh.] And then what do they do? They...
...Experts blame the emergence of these souped-up bugs in part on our habit of treating so many infections with powerful antibiotics; the microbes battle back by mutating to become resistant to the drugs. It's a process that can't be reversed overnight, but there are ways to keep the bugs at bay. Schools and other fertile breeding grounds like health clubs should be kept clean. Adults and kids should stay alert to news of outbreaks. And everyone should take care to keep hands washed and cuts covered. Bacteria can't thrive where they aren't welcome...
...Some Asian artists blame the consumerist hype on foreign collectors who impose their tastes - and dollars - on locals. "The foreigners already have an idea of what they expect from Chinese art, and they are more interested in works that have obvious Chinese symbols," says Shanghai artist Ding Yi, whose Mondrian-inspired geometries hardly betray his nationality. "It's very seductive," acknowledges Li Liang, the owner of Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai. "You know that if you put things up that look Chinese, they will sell well." But others worry that this impulse will only encourage soulless facsimiles with little cultural resonance...
...Spanish class had excitedly discussed the fight at “the black students’ party.” I’ve heard so many condemnations of the fight and explanations for the police response that night, all of them valid, all of them placing the blame somewhere different. I am far more intrigued, however, by the different responses of my schoolmates in the days that followed. As a black student, I know that what I say about race will be understood by many to carry a particular bias on this issue. But the truth is that this...