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Last month, one undergraduate sent in her application to the prestigious Fulbright Program as a junior. At least, that’s what her transcript said. Truth be told, Denise L. Delaney ’08 isn’t a precocious junior, but rather a disgruntled senior. Returning from...

Author: By Guillian H. Helm, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Sticky Situation | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, peanut allergies more than doubled between 1997 and 2002 in children under 5 and are now estimated to affect more than 1% of school age children. "It is like being in a minefield," says Dr. Scott Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peanut Butter Sandwich Under Threat | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Easier said than done. To get home after they leave the meeting, the afflicted must run Macau's gauntlet of gambling resorts, their mesmerizing neon and ritzy, come-hither ambiance carefully calculated to encourage a fling at the tables. Temptation seems to be everywhere. Since the city began issuing new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Stakes | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

As if that wasn't enough, the tremors came at a time when hedge funds were under increasing scrutiny by politicians and regulators concerned about their growing impact on global financial markets. With total assets of more than $1.8 trillion, the industry has nearly doubled in size since 2004, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Way Out? | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

The human heart does not like surprises. In the month after 9/11, incidents of dangerous heart rhythms in cardiac patients around New York City more than doubled. After a major earthquake in Taiwan in 1999, hospitalization for heart attacks skyrocketed around the epicenter. Even an isolated, private event - the sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Achy Breaky Heart | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

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