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...number of “level three” biosafety labs. According to a Cambridge Public Health Department publication, “level three” labs house airborne agents associated with serious or lethal diseases and are subject to higher standards of safety procedure and disposal than lower level labs. Fourth generation East Cambridge resident and attorney Marie E. Saccoccio called the presence of “level three” labs in her densely populated part of the city, home to three senior citizen housing buildings and two charter schools, the worst idea she had ever heard...
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have concluded that children born with lower IQs possess higher risk of psychiatric disorders, according to a decades-long study of 1000 people in New Zealand. Children with lower IQ levels were more vulnerable to having chronic psychiatric disorders after the age of 32, researchers said. The study was conducted on a cohort of children born between 1972 and 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand and first tested at age three. The participants were assessed for psychiatric disorders at ages 18 through 32 by doctors without any knowledge of the cohort members?...
...days of November, holiday online spending reached $8.2 billion, a 4% decline compared with the corresponding days last year, when online sales hit $8.5 billion, according to the online-marketing research firm comScore. The firm predicts that online-shopping growth will be flat for November and December - significantly lower than 2007's growth rate of 19% and below the retail e-commerce growth rate of 9% year to date in 2008. "I don't know that this is the only prediction to go by," says Ried, noting that other firms like Forrester Research expect to see online sales grow about...
...deals are more generic on Cyber Monday and half as good [as Black Friday]," says Vincent. Stores will make up for that with extra enticements like lower purchase minimums for free shipping or a free-shipping voucher with gift-card sales, a promotion Lands' End is having. "Free-shipping deals is a minimum cost of entry," says Cassar. "Essentially, retailers will subsidize it, with those costs coming out of their margins." In addition, sites will offer more bundles like "buy one, get 50% off another item," which help stores move two pieces of merchandise and lower their inventory levels. This...
...father, my roommate, and I entered the Film Forum–a nonprofit theater in lower Manhattan that mostly shows independent films–last Friday right about when the previews had started...