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...Earlier this month, actor Levar Burton sent a message to his 146,000 Twitter followers inviting them to a "Tweetup" at a Toronto bar. About 40 people showed up, some because they were die-hard Star Trek fans, others because they had nothing better to do. Burton says he felt safe because of the type of fans he attracts. "Star Trek, Roots and Reading Rainbow had great cultural impact and inspire great fondness in people," he explains. "I don't have the type of fans who come up to me and want to put a cigarette...
...existing home sales data which was released to the market earlier was a "half empty, half full" set of data. The market seemed to take it as just full and left the empty part behind...
...results reignite a long-standing controversy over the impact of anesthesia on still developing minds and bodies. The hazards were documented in earlier studies of animals: for example, rat studies have repeatedly shown that animals exposed to anesthesia drugs in the first seven days of life - when nerve cells are forming and connecting to the larger neural network - develop problems performing maze exercises, which require memory and reasoning skills. In the 1960s, based on similar concerns over possible injury to a baby's immature nervous system, doctors advocated only light anesthesia or none at all for infants undergoing surgery. Some...
...final day of the tournament, Harvard certainly was back into its winning ways, avenging two of its losses from earlier that weekend to take the title. The victory marked the Crimson’s second consecutive tournament...
Despite the earlier Carrisa solar experiment, the state feels it is still inexperienced in judging the impact of huge solar plants. According to California Energy Commission chairwoman Karen Douglas, "We've got much more experience siting natural-gas plants than siting renewables, both from a staff and commission perspective. So some issues are rising up in the renewables case that are substantively different than what has been the core of the siting work before the solar applications started coming in so quickly...