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...June 4, Steven Johnson sent a tweet to his more than 500,000 followers on Twitter, informing them that he had written this week's cover story about how Twitter is changing the way society communicates. That tweet is also this week's cover image. I know this is all a bit meta and like trying to capture digital lightning in a jar, but we thought it was a way of illustrating how new platforms and social networks are changing the way we communicate and live...
Mindell is careful to emphasize that while her research, which was funded by Johnson & Johnson, does not support co-sleeping, it doesn't absolutely condemn it either. One question that remains: if vast numbers of babies in Asian populations are sleeping less than their Western peers - without any apparently society-wide disadvantage - does it truly matter if babies co-sleep...
...general election. (Imposing a second successive unelected P.M., the assumption goes, would be one too many for the electorate to swallow, making a national poll inevitable.) Rebellion was stymied, too, by a failure of the disgruntled to unite behind a policy agenda or a credible successor. When Alan Johnson and Miliband - the two leading contenders for the role - took plum jobs in Brown's reshuffled cabinet last week, the likelihood of such a move waned. (See the top 10 most outrageous British expense claims...
...none of that puts Brown in the clear. According to a poll published Tuesday in Britain's Independent newspaper, the opposition Conservatives - consistently double-digits ahead of Labour in recent opinion polls - would nonetheless fall six seats short of a majority in any general election with the genial Johnson as Labour's P.M. With Brown still at the helm, the Tories would romp home 74 seats to the good. More evidence of that nature - or defeat in either of the two tricky by-elections Labour faces in the coming months, following the resignation of a pair...
...Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention of Air, and a co-founder of the local-news website outside.in...