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...babies to sleep face-up, has helped reduce the national SIDS death rate 56%, from 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1992 to .53 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2003. In addition to placing babies on their backs to sleep, pediatricians recommend that parents use firm mattresses for babies, avoid soft bedding such as comforters and quilts, put babies in their own cribs at night, keep infants from overheating and refrain from smoking during pregnancy and infancy...
...create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
...Ranganathan expressed confidence that he would remain in the health care industry following business school. “I like the small, start-up, entrepreneurial environment, and my inclination is towards that direction, either at a small company or at a venture capital firm,” he said. “I’m looking for opportunities to stay close to science while building a viable business, but these thoughts can change during my two years here.” Tara A. Dunn ’01, was the only woman to be awarded a Life Science Fellowship...
...professor of marketing at the Business School, was trained as an engineer. But after he graduated from the renowned Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1971, he found that he was unsatisfied with the cold emphasis on numbers.“I worked for a structural engineering firm for a short time after graduating from IIT,” Rangan said, “I enjoyed what I did, but it was all analytical, consisting of technical drawings and calculations. Meanwhile, I had always been interested in the human side. How do people behave with each other...
...male transgender attorney a few years ago. As a younger attorney, the lawyer had been Susan; now he was Thomas. He told Schilt that after he transitioned from female to male, another lawyer mistakenly believed that Susan had been fired and replaced by Thomas. The other lawyer commended the firm's boss for the replacement. He said Susan had been incompetent; "the new guy," he added, was "just delightful." (Later, Ben Barres, an FTM neurobiology professor at Stanford, told The Wall Street Journal of a similar experience. An attendee at one of his lectures leaned over to a colleague...