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...being cut from the herd," frazzled mother Lois tells her son Malcolm, who has just tested--to his chagrin--as a genius. "It makes you the one buffalo that isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff." That, or it makes you the easiest target for sharpshooters; whoever coined the term "gifted" clearly never received a wedgie for being a brain. As the oddball sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) shows, being pegged as special is more a "gift" in a Let's Make a Deal sense. Behind...
CHEW ON THIS Your personal trainer may not approve, but a new study reveals what may be the easiest way to burn off calories: chewing gum. Chomping for an hour on a big wad (half a pack, sugarless) raises the metabolic rate 19% and burns 11 extra calories. That may not sound like much, but researchers calculate that chewing every waking hour can knock off 10 lbs. a year. The experiment illustrates that even the most trivial increase in activity can affect weight. Another example: strolling at a snail's pace (1 m.p.h.) doubles metabolic rate and burns 62 calories...
...definitely had the easiest subject to photograph. Aaron was born to perform: to a room, in an article, for a camera. And make no mistake, he's performing here. He may look defenseless, but he's on top of the world. He's got a girlfriend, he's got a job. More important to us, he's got FM organized. He's the magazine's backbone, really. And wouldn't you just die to pinch those cheeks...
Mistakes are a fact of life (and sometimes death) in any hospital, but one of the easiest to make, according to the report published last week by the Institute of Medicine (see story this week in MEDICINE), is to confuse one drug for another. Fortunately, this is a source of medical error that patients can do something about...
...whine and moan about the state of American public education. Why, then, do so few students choose to do something about it? To many of us, who have found our niche in the classroom, teaching seems like the obvious and easiest way to give back...