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Such ripple effects among social groups may seem pretty obvious - people naturally look to their friends to figure out what behaviors are socially acceptable - but Christakis notes that the scope and size of the networks in which these effects operate is much larger than previously thought. His research, for example, shows that geographical distance between individuals in the network doesn't seem to weaken behavioral influences. That means that prevention and treatment programs for health-related behaviors such as quitting smoking, losing weight and exercising could become more efficient by taking advantage of the network effect. "The wonderful property...
...rigorous global accord. It is now clear this is not going to happen. And in today's harsher economic climate, governments are more likely to look for ways to scale back subsidies for renewable energy than to boost them. Nor are voters likely to be willing to pay the larger energy bills that "green" policies demand...
...people who already have some of these plaques forming, there's not a lot that can be done until we get some disease-modifying therapy. Within the last few years, there have been quite a few [drugs] getting into Phase III clinical trials - that means larger trials with larger groups of people. They're not prevention trials, [but they're] just seeing whether the treatments can modify this aggregation of plaques one way or the other. There is some hope that we'll have disease-modifying therapies in the not too distant future. But I can't put an exact...
...University’s collection than before, which Museum officials hope will attract more visitors, said spokesman Daron J. Manoogian. “Currently we are only able to display less than one percent of the collections,” he said. “We hope to create larger exhibition spaces.” Additionally, Manoogian hopes that putting the all the art collections in close proximity to each other will attract more visitors to the lesser-frequented Sackler Museum. “At the moment, the Sackler has one-fifth the visitors compared to the Fogg...
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