Word: hr
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...warns that TV can negatively affect early brain development, especially for kids 2 and younger, when learning to talk and play is so crucial. Despite that kind of caution, the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati has found that 40% of 2-year-olds watch more than 3 hr...
...pitchbooks that no one reads anyways—to a Third World country with strong English and typing skills, like Cambodia or India. Trading desks can be replaced by networks of day traders working from home. Ideally, once these firms have restructured, they will retain nothing but a HR department and an outgoing, charismatic, racially diverse skeleton staff to recruit us outgoing, charismatic and racially diverse students...
...wind rushes up through them. They give the aircraft lift, stability and improved safety; in case of engine failure, they continue to rotate and allow a safe, controlled descent. The other thing that makes the gyroplane different from a helicopter is the bottom line: running costs (about $160 per hr.) are almost halved. The gyroplane is in the final stages of FAA testing, and a 13-dealer network is busy targeting tourism and agriculture markets. It might also do service on the homeland-security beat: CEO David Groen says the craft would be ideal for border, pipeline and nuclear-facility...
CHEAP $10 PRINCETON TEC PULSAR FLASHLIGHT What? You think key chains are just for holding the keys to your SUV? Princeton Tec's tiny terror of a flashlight is the size of a large grape, but it puts out 12 hr. of brilliant white light on just two watch batteries. You won't even remember it's there--until you lose a contact in your tent in the middle of the night. www.princetontec.com...
...taken a week and a half to nail down the diagnosis of anthrax at NBC. At first the baby believed to have been infected at ABC News was thought to have a spider bite. Testing at the CDC lab in Atlanta was delayed for 14 hours after a 1-hr. power failure. Most health-care workers have never seen a case of anthrax, though they are learning what it looks like fast. Many of the national Emergency Response Network's 100-odd public-health labs, flooded with suspicious samples to test, had to learn to do triage: the disease detectives...