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...forms of Tamiflu, the only drug approved to treat the disease. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials tell TIME that last week their officers seized 250 separate parcels of suspect Tamiflu at the airmail facility in New York City -- the biggest interception to date -- and one package in Chicago. The New York shipments came from the island of Mauritius and were probably destined for American consumers wanting to stock up in case of a pandemic...
...Americans say part of the reason it is so hard to reach an equilibrium is that they are seen as what sociologists call "forever foreigners." Their looks lead to a lifetime of questions like "No, where are you really from?" As a teenager in the affluent and overwhelmingly white Chicago suburb of Riverwoods, Ill, Vanessa DeGuia, now 26, endured incident after incident that made her aware that others regarded her as foreign, despite how her birth certificate read. One classmate told her, "You're my brown friend. You're so exotic." Another came over for dinner, took a bite...
...what matters most is not what toy the baby plays with but the ways in which you interact with your child. "There's no question that the experiences a child has in its first year are crucial for cognitive, emotional and physical development," says Lise Eliot, a neuroscientist at Chicago Medical School and author of What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. "But the good news is none of this costs any money. Babies prefer humans over anything inanimate...
...mind and body. In this New Age interpretation, Mozart is the ultimate composer-therapist whose music can help treat ailments ranging from acne to Alzheimer's disease and even, it is claimed, make you and your kids smarter. Some of these claims are based on science. One neurosurgeon in Chicago has conducted studies that show certain Mozart pieces can reduce the severity and frequency of epileptic seizures in some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. But much...
While Randall was always interested in physics, a summer internship before her final year at the College narrowed her focus. She spent the summer working for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a high energy particle accelerator near Chicago...