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...stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle -- not because of lower-class stress but rather because they may have been exposed to more lead or more pollution, or obtained less medical attention, when they were children...
...Comcast happy by selling the company 2 million cable subscribers at the relatively low cost of about $4,550 per subscriber. That was in addition to the $1.5 billion breakup fee Comcast collected to walk away from the deal. (Comcast's strengthened position may come in handy later as Exhibit A when AT&T has to prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software...
...published Thursday in the journal Nature suggests the common practice may not be such a good idea. Research from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Phildelphia indicates that children who regularly sleep with the light on before they reach the age of two exhibit a higher rate of developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia. Of children who had slept with a night light before the age of two, 34 percent became myopic; of those who had slumbered...
Fourteen of May's captivating paintings are on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, ten from her Ordinary/Extraordinary series, and four from her Women, Words, and Water series. Together, these elemental paintings form the main structure of her new exhibit, Images of Women Near and Far and highlight two decades worth of work by this contemporary figurative artist...
...chance to witness her passion in person. Listening to Stevens speak about her art was like uncovering hidden treasures, delectable for the eye and the mind. All is not lost, however. Anyone can experience the intensity of May Stevens's person by viewing this exhibit and encountering through paintings the dynamic woman who created...