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Don't break out the cigars yet. Demographers say many of these new mothers are the thirtysomething daughters of Japan's postwar baby boomers, belatedly settling down to marry and have kids now that the economy has finally revived. Their late start means they're unlikely to produce the large...
Don’t get me wrong. The classes are great, but academics are 50 percent—at most—of the Harvard experience. I learned a lot listening to professors; but I learned as much listening to the guest speakers that come through various organizations, such as...
At another stop, Obama toured a research facility run by the Centers for Disease Control and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and learned about the thousands of people in Kenya, and millions across the world, killed by malaria every year. He also visited a project run by non-governmental agency...
Still other telescopes will be trying to take pictures not of the first stars and galaxies, but of the clouds of hydrogen atoms they formed from and that they eventually destroyed. The hydrogen atoms emitted radiation too, in the form of radio waves, and several competing projects in various stages...
Another innovation at the VA was a bar-code system, as in the supermarket, for prescriptions--a system used in fewer than 5% of private hospitals. With a hand-held laser reader, a nurse scans the bar code on a patient's wristband, then the one on the bottle of...