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...Kirkland last summer, residents who wanted free storage had to stow their boxes and furniture with Collegeboxes. Harvard fronted the cost to students of storing up to six boxes with the company. HSA’s contract with Watertown-based Collegeboxes—dubbed by The Wall Street Journal as the largest national storage service company oriented towards college students—expired this fall, and HSA has yet to decide whether to renew it. “We’re going to take our own route of evaluation and look at all the statistics and all the complaints...
...Youse's first donation to iThemba Lethu was her own breast milk. She kept an online journal to share the experience with her family, but other mothers soon became interested in her story of shipping across international borders and asked how they could might contribute. "I figured there were hundreds of moms in the same position," says Youse. She established the International Breast Milk Project in May, sending about 23 gallons of tested and pasteurized frozen breast milk to Africa; DHL agreed to make the delivery free of charge. Within six months, 300 mothers from across the U.S. applied...
Most women know that osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones, is a big risk after menopause. Probably most don't know that drinking cola increases the risk. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at 1,125 men and 1,413 women ages 29 to 86. Among the women--but not the men--there was significant loss of bone density in cola drinkers, whether they drank diet or regular. It's not the first evidence, but it's the strongest to date linking cola to bone loss...
Nobody has ever fully explained what used to be called crib death and is now known as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association may point to at least part of the answer. In a study of 31 babies who died of SIDS and 10 who died from other causes, the SIDS babies had many more abnormalities among the neurons in their brain stem than did the other infants. The defects involved the processing of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that, among other things, controls arousal from sleep. When SIDS babies get into...
...prevent it from getting on the ballot. The motion to recess early, which needed the backing of a majority of legislators to pass, received 109 votes, including those of Cambridge’s three legislators. The move came as no surprise to Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal and an instructor at the Extension School. “I think they’re all lobbied extensively by certain people around town and the pressure they feel tends to come from the people who are very satisfied by going into recess the way they...