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...needs to spend less time at the spa and more with the kids: "I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me!" Even Lifetime ("Television for Women") now airs a series called How Clean Is Your House? Meet theTV women of fall 2004: damned if they dust, damned if they don't. --By James Poniewozik
...most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With those allergies, a dehumidifier works better...
...mattress and pillow covers and vacuuming with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, can greatly reduce a child's asthma symptoms, according to a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Working in low-income, inner-city homes where children suffered from asthma triggered by indoor allergens--dust mites, cockroaches, pets, tobacco smoke or mold--researchers taught families how to reduce the level of those pollutants. A year later, children in those homes reported three fewer weeks of asthma symptoms than did kids in untreated homes...
...astray, taking precautions that weren't helpful "and made little sense," according to Dr. Michael Cabana, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who led the study. One of the most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends...
Harvard’s latest curricular innovation caught it up with the rest of the Ivies (leaving only Princeton in our curricular dust) and 17 other national universities in the top 20 of the U.S. News survey. The meaning is clear: Big-time universities think that film studies is something you ought to be able to major in and Harvard finally agrees...