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...appear to be at greater risk of heart disease than men with more robust social networks. The researchers looked at marital status, number of close friends and family members, and participation in social and religious clubs. Compared with men in the highest quartile on the social-network index, men in the lowest fourth had significantly greater blood levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, substances that are associated with inflammation and are believed to be markers for cardiovascular disease. Curiously, researchers found no such link between social well-being and heart disease risk among the women they studied...
Pischetsrieder insists the strategy will pay off once the new cars take hold with consumers. Investors seem to think so. VW's share price rallied 34% from the start of the year to early November, outperforming the Dow Jones auto index by 14 percentage points. The Touareg is off to a strong sales start, both here and in Europe. The Phaeton is not. Available in Europe for more than a year, it has been no threat to the Mercedes S Class and the BMW 7 Series, selling less than 8,000 units (in 2002 BMW sold 14,670 7 Series...
...educational testing. The College Entrance Examination Board shouldn't waste money and energy worrying high school students and their parents with the New SAT. The test, in any incarnation, is simply another item for colleges to consider. The Ivies and other elite universities will continue to use an academic index, reject students with perfect SATs and accept whomever they want to achieve their ideal, perfectly diverse freshman class. Let's stop the charade; abolish the SAT. BILL TOUMEY Long Beach...
...trouble with books is that they're too low-tech. Like all wood-pulp devices, they have no built-in search engine. Sure, you can look up stuff in the index. But who has the time? Certainly not the generation that is growing up with Google. According to a 2001 Pew Research Center study, 71% of online teens rely "mostly on the Internet" for their homework. As the pace of life grows faster, the tendency is to shun any information that isn't delivered fresh and piping hot to our computer screens within seconds. And that means books lose...
...took the opportunity to jump back down to us, singing the last verse of the song with his face inches away from a distracted bouncer’s ear. As the lights darted from Julian to the chaos in front of him, the mischevious nogoodnik grinned, and raised his index finger to his lips, as if to say “Don’t tell him I’m here...