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...government insists that the event won't cost a penny more. The $290 million increase in the cost of building venues announced on Feb. 5, for instance, will come out of a $3 billion contingency fund included in the inflated budget. So too will the $682 million in extra public money needed for the media center and Olympic village - home to some 17,000 athletes during the Games, before turning into 3,000 apartments following them - after private investors spooked by the downturn backed away from the projects...
Earlier studies, including surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had documented the greater risk of neural-tube defects and kidney problems in children of obese moms. But the new study serves as a warning to both doctors and patients that a mother-to-be's extra pounds should be considered a more powerful and far-reaching risk factor during pregnancy. While there are no conclusive explanations yet, researchers have three theories about why maternal obesity may lead to congenital abnormalities. First, many obese women may also have undiagnosed diabetes, which can lead to abnormal development...
...students. After Harvard-Yale tickets were sold out, it became apparent that there was a large gap between supply and demand. Students—such as seniors who did not want to miss their last Game—scrambled for tickets, pleading over e-mail lists for those with extra. Within minutes, some students offered up their tickets for free, at face value, or a little above. However, these benevolent e-mails were immediately followed by those from “entrepreneurial” students, who offered their tickets at a few hundred percent above face value. In some cases...
...students on significant financial aid? Though they would gain equal amount of pleasure from attending the Game, they face tradeoffs. When it comes to choosing between a football game and next semester’s textbooks, there is no contest. Therefore, these peers of ours have to be extra vigilant about collecting their tickets in time since they do not have their parents’ bank account to fall back...
...cold. She died hours later. Postal worker Adam Janus died in another Chicago suburb later that morning. Janus' brother and his brother's wife, complaining of headaches while mourning Adam, died too. In a few days the death toll grew - the only link being that each victim had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...