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...said to house some nice paintings. Riversleigh has since provided an annual bounty of exquisitely preserved bones and teeth, the remains of creatures - fish, frogs, crocodiles, turtles, snakes, birds, marsupials, bats - that lived anywhere up to 25 million years ago, when Riversleigh was a thriving rainforest in a cooler, wetter (and more southern) Australia. In so doing, the site has filled in what were once gaping holes in our understanding of the origins of modern Australian fauna. "Only in one or two places on the surface of our planet, in the course of the last three thousand million years, have...
...fault. A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that cholesterol levels naturally fluctuate throughout the year. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester tracked 517 healthy people for a year and found that their cholesterol levels tended to rise in cooler months and fall in warmer months. The biggest changes occurred in those with elevated cholesterol, and in women...
...about soda options? In search of a $1 billion cut in operating costs, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote to employees warning of cuts in perks. The most famous of these, free beverages, he later cautioned, could involve a shift from cooler-based supplies to soda dispensers...
...based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels from card counters and scammers. "Nobody cheats in my casino!" exults Caan in Las Vegas, even though "his" casino actually...
Along with drinking fluids, there are other measures to prevent a problem. For example, experts suggest light outdoor exercise, which acclimatizes your body to the hot environment and helps you expel heat more efficiently. When you exercise, do so in the cooler times of the day, at a moderate pace and for less time than usual. And, suggests Julie Main, general manager of the Santa Barbara Athletic Club in California, use a heart-rate monitor to keep at safe stress levels...