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...Cell Phones Chinese mobile-phone maker Panda uses skateboard dudes in a television advertisement to give its cuddly brand a dose of countercultural cool...
...moon. Some kind of shielding is obviously necessary--anathema to space designers, who like to keep hardware light, but unavoidable all the same. (On the surface of Mars, tanks of water or even dirt berms could serve the same protective purpose.) The best way to limit the radiation dose on the way to Mars is simply to limit the transit time, and that means improving on the conventional engines all spacecraft have carried up until...
...people only to be experts in why they're having a problem--and novices in what to do about it. People on the brink of divorce do not have the luxury of time to take this journey backward. They need an instant injection of hope." Weiner-Davis encourages a dose of what she calls "real giving"--asking couples to realize what their partner needs in certain situations and provide what he needs regardless of whether the giver understands it. For example, if your spouse prefers to be alone when he's upset, allow him quiet time, even if you prefer...
...unlike many of my fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely deign to catch the evening news, I appreciate what mega-conglomerate news can provide for people like me—a dose of reality, American pop-culture style. It keeps me in touch...
...morning-after pill available as an over-the-counter drug is sailing along pretty smoothly. Two FDA advisory committees voted last week 28 to 4 to recommend that the pill known as Plan B be as easy to buy as condoms or cough syrup. Plan B is a high-dose oral contraceptive that prevents fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized egg within 72 hours after intercourse. (Unlike the drug RU 486, it cannot induce an abortion.) "The vote," says committee member James Trussell, director of Princeton's office of population research, "provides a very powerful signal to women that...