Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greater the chance of myopia. Of children who had slept with a night light before the age of two, 34 percent became myopic; of those who had slumbered under a room light, the figure rose to 55 percent. Meanwhile, only 10 percent of those who had slept in the dark as infants were later reported as nearsighted...
...what should parents do? First thing, says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, is to stay calm. "Don?t panic over the study," she says. While the research may ultimately shed light on the importance of darkness during sleep, for the moment "this is just an observational study," says Gorman, "and observational studies are famous for falling apart upon further investigation." The scientists wanted to conduct "quick and dirty" research, says Gorman, to learn if nighttime lighting was worth looking into as a source of increasing levels of myopia. They didn?t impose some key controls on the research, such...
...eleven teenagers who maintained the site are students at Field High School in a small town called Brimfield. According to an Associated Press report, their web site was "filled with images of dragons and castles and dark poetry," and it referred to the Littleton massacre explicitly, although hardly in positive terms: "I wonder how long it'll be before we're allowed to wear our trenchcoats anymore. You know those screwed up kids in Colorado were wearing them, so that means I will also kill someone, and so will all my friends." MORE...
...parents and because we are citizens. Since Littleton, we worry not so much about our kids' or their classmates' being turned into mass murderers as about something more persistently troubling: that even if our kids aren't playing blood-soaked computer games or plotting violence in the dark crannies of an online chat room, they are plunging into a whole world of influences and values and enticements that is, most of the time, hidden from our view...
...millions of Americans will be getting the chance to see if orlistat works for them as well. The FDA ruled last week that the drug, made by Hoffman-LaRoche, can go on sale in the U.S. The dark blue capsules, under the trade name Xenical, could be available by prescription as early as this week...