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...part of the generation that thinks privacy is passé. Send me a friend request? We're friends now. Poke my profile? I'll poke yours back. But using your profile to send you real things I have to pay for with Facebook's alternative currency? That might be the biggest leap of faith yet. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
...earthquake, people in the developed world turned their Brad-and-Angelina eyes to the tens of thousands left orphaned in the rubble. Well-meaning interest in adopting Haitian kids has spiked worldwide, prompting the Haitian government to apply the brakes for fear that amid the chaos, children might be whisked away illegally. On Jan. 29, that concern seemed borne out when 10 Baptist missionaries from Idaho were arrested trying to ferry 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents. The Americans called their efforts caring, but many Haitians sided with Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, who called the missionaries misguided...
...Cardinal announced that its second-quarter revenue increased 3%, to $25 billion, supplemented by a 38% increase in profit on the medical-supply side. But perhaps even better news came when AmerisourceBergen and McKesson unveiled their earnings a few days earlier. Whereas a year ago, one of the two might have boasted about winning some of Cardinal's business, this time around, says Gill, "the same competitor is saying the exact opposite: 'We think all of our competitors are in good places, and given the stickiness, we don't expect any big accounts to change hands.'" In other words, Cardinal...
...prominent British medical journal The Lancet retracted a widely cited 1998 research paper that suggested that vaccines could cause autism in children. The paper, authored by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, garnered significant attention for its assertion that the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might be unsafe. British vaccination rates subsequently tumbled, and measles cases increased. A number of studies have challenged Wakefield's claims, leading to a reassessment of the original paper that discovered problems with his methodology and conflicts of interest...
...outsider eating breakfast in Currier might soon be struck by something else besides the green "pistachio" muffins—namely, a group of intrepid Quadlings wearing bathrobes down to the dining hall in the a.m. We hear that this same group of Currierites is currently in the process of having special Currier bathrobes made: here’s a promotional video from the organizers with singing, dancing, and a PBS-like series of commentaries on the import and meaning of the “bathrobe...