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...diethylhexyl phthalate) is regulated in drinking water, and even that may, at times, be present at higher than permissible amounts, since levels fluctuate over time and water is tested only intermittently, while other phthalates are not regulated at all. So consumers may decide to use a home water treatment method. The best way to remove phthalates from drinking water is by using a granular activated carbon (GAC) filter. There are no regulatory requirements for phthalates in bottled water at all. The National Resources Defense Council tested a number of brands of bottled water and some, but not all , contained phthalates...
...manufacturer Hästens, is the world's most exclusive bed. Made from the finest natural materials, a Vividus bed, above, takes up to 160 hours to complete and is built entirely by hand (hence the $49,500 price tag). The pine frame is held together through a dovetail-jointing method, requiring no screws. The main and overlay mattresses are layered blends of cotton, wool and horsehair. Each Vividus bed is custom-made and bears the signature of the Hästens craftsman who built...
...they want to get done.” David A. Edwards, a biomedical engineering professor in Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, received a $7.6 million grant from the foundation to further his work in developing vaccination that uses inhaled sprays rather than needles, a method that could make vaccination easier and safer in developing countries. Edwards said yesterday that although medical technology may not advance as rapidly as information technology—where Bill Gates made billions through his work at Microsoft—the “power is absolutely there...
...committee meeting, the school system compared minority groups’ performance to that of whites. Using the new CPI benchmarking system, the 2005-2006 report released last night shows that the minority-white achievement gaps are narrowing. The report recalculates the achievement gaps for previous years using the CPI method to make its estimations. Some of the district’s most significant gains for minority students were on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English language arts and mathematics exams, where African American students gained 16.4 points in English and 19.1 points in math, bringing their totals...
...Here, then, is a popular, long-running television series with only seven episodes; a social document that, with its next installment in 2012, will have spanned a half-century; a research project with no pretense to scientific method but a compelling sense of stretching the particulars of these few people into generalizations about the English character; and a family reunion with people we've never met but know more about than we do about our extended families, or most of the people we work with. Here too is the show that, for better or worse, created a genre - reality...