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...role of calcium in the healthy brain is critical, particularly in young children, whose brains undergo rapid neural development from the last trimester in utero up through ages 1 to 2. Infants' brains expand quickly, then ruthlessly prune back brain cells - a process of orderly cell death, known as apoptosis. In an experiment in young rats undergoing this crucial stage of neural development, Christopher Turner, an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, witnessed out-of-control apoptosis in the brains of rats treated with drugs that mimicked the action of the general anesthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...that trading means more profit for Bartercard. The privately held company charges a one-time membership fee - $1,200 to $2,400, depending on the size of the business - and a 5.5% cash and 1% trade fee on each transaction. Sharpe is confident the firm will continue to expand even as the economy improves. "Companies will need to hire new staff and restart advertising and marketing campaigns which they pulled during the recession," he says. "Bartering frees up cash for that." It's a concept he obviously believes in: the firm uses its trade credits to pay the rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bartering: Have Hotel, Need Haircut | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...More people will have the opportunity to travel, to explore and to expand, while doing service,” he said...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Holds Holds Town Hall on J-Term | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...These tensions may balloon in the future as other regional powers expand their interests in Baluchistan as well. The presence of some 19 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the province has raised the prospect of significant outside investment, but it has only deepened Baluch anxieties of alienation. China has already set about securing access to Baluchistan's other rich veins of resources: it owns a controlling interest in the massive gold and copper mine at Saindak and has steered the building of a $1 billion blue water port at Gwadar, mostly using Chinese labor. The growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan | 11/1/2009 | See Source »

...Esty will also be inheriting a number of IOP community-building programs instituted by Cox, who said she hopes her successors—both of whom she said she counts as friends—could expand upon her work...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Single Ticket Vies For IOP Head | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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