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...biggest hazard of e-trading is trading. The ability to buy and sell stock instantly should not be confused with the word investing. Hooked hackers often trade many times a day in the hope of profiting from fractional changes in the price of a stock--a risky practice called "day trading" that can swell commissions while shrinking portfolios. "The easier it becomes to trade, the greater the danger that you'll trade too much or make poor decisions," Burnham says...
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD Your job may pose a risk--for your child. Kids whose mothers worked in the chemical industry for five years before pregnancy may be three times as likely to develop a brain tumor. If fathers did, the risk doubles...
...mother, even the dilapidated domesticity of Arkansas was an improvement over Minnesota. By the early 1990s, her marriage to Scott Johnson was failing, and home life had become something of a health hazard. "There was dog crap on the kitchen floor," recalls an occasional visitor to their farmhouse in Grand Meadow. "Rotting food was lying on the counter for weeks. The yard was not cleaned or mowed." As for Mitch, the visitor recalls once finding him asleep behind some paneling in the house. He says, "He didn't look like someone I wanted my kid to play with. His clothes...
...exactly what situations are observable, and which must be left unseen. "Some things are absolutely intriguing--for example, watching people put on make-up or admire themselves in the mirror. But I don't want to watch people making out." Of course, this isn't a particularly frequent occupational hazard, but even at Harvard, people do hook up, (all too often right in front of their windows.) "Exposed flesh is just out. I'm not a pervert. It's more like an anthropological study." She mentions that she may try to integrate this into an upcoming photo project ("because people...
POND SCUM Strange compounds are turning up in European water sources: traces of antibiotics, cholesterol-lowering drugs and other pharmaceuticals that seem to be coming from human waste. Whether the same holds true for the U.S.--and what hazard it poses--isn't yet known...