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...like Coke and one that tastes like Pepsi. And since the soft-drink maker will still be selling new Coke, none of the millions of dollars spent to launch that product has been wasted. If anything, the furor created by the flavor change has made Coke more of a household word than ever...
Radon is not the only indoor public-health hazard that has increased because of the pursuit of energy efficiency. The EPA reported in June that eleven toxic air pollutants may pose a threat in the average home, where they are believed to be generated by common household products and building materials. Prior to the report, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and George Mitchell of Maine and Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont introduced the Indoor Air Quality Research Act, which calls for further examination of the hazards of radon and other indoor air pollutants...
...employment rate of former foster children was 80.1 percent compared with 95 percent for those aged 20-34 in the general population. A third had household incomes at or below the poverty level...
...pick the 100 most influential men and women of 2005? Some people are obvious, thanks to their position; that is why George W. Bush is once again part of the TIME 100, along with Hu Jintao of China. Some, I think it is fair to say, were not household names a year ago, such as Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine. Some belong on the list because of how they set the agenda outside their day job (Bill Gates, for his charity work) or make their daytime-TV job into a guide for how to live a meaningful life (Oprah Winfrey). Others...
...paper published in this month’s American Journal of Epidemiology listed community-level risk factors for the spread of S. pneumoniae, which included household size, socioeconomic status, and attendance at day-care facilities...