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...suspect Lifestyles), FM decided to get to the bottom of the love-glove travesty. First, we tested our condoms for “resistance” using an “ohmmeter.” Condom experts use ohmmeters to test condoms’ permeability. But their method is confusing. FM just hooked the condoms up jumper-cable style to see how much juice we could flow through them. Lifestyle and Durex tied for first at 1.5 kilo-ohms. Trojan clocked in at 1.25 kilo-ohms. We’re not really sure what this means. Next, we tested...
...years, doctors have hoped to offer women the opportunity to weigh their options earlier. Last week brought good news on that front. A $15 million study, six years in the making and funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that a method of screening women for Down in the first trimester is an even better indicator of risk than second-trimester screening. The aptly named FASTER study (for first- and second- trimester evaluation of risk), published in the New England Journal of Medicine, determined that if done properly, the first-trimester screening detects...
...correct that it is behind the synchronized suicide bombings of three American-owned chain hotels in the center of Amman, Jordan, it would mark the first time that Abu Musab Zarqawi, who claimed responsibility less than 24 hours later, has pulled off a major atrocity in Jordan. The method and the targets bore the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, whose franchise in Iraq, which specializes in suicide bombings and beheadings of kidnap victims, is headed up by Zarqawi. The bomber at the Radisson SAS hotel is thought to have walked into a hall where a wedding...
...came to understand Rayleigh scattering, and it continues to exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...
...that binds the movie’s varied elements into an affecting piece of cinema. Walt’s development as a character is the driving narrative force, and his confusion, frustration, and ultimate resignation comprise the bulk of the film’s substance. Eisenberg’s method is a study in minimalism: he possesses the uncanny ability to make a seemingly blank expression convey great depths of emotion. In the movie’s closing minutes, Walt and his father share a heart-to-heart in a hospital room: Eisenberg communicates Walt’s shift from...