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Boys and girls, they pointed out, develop differently and are quite out of sync with each other. Most boys lag behind most girls developmentally. Although they perceive spatial relationships vividly and achieve large motor control early, their relationship to the physical world makes them less able to sit quietly, listen closely, and, in general, behave like girls...

Author: By Diana Meehan, ph.d | Title: Sex, Education, and Government | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...potential uses of DeepStream's technology are endless. The company envisions sensors that detect wasted motor motion, power surges, electrical loss, overheating and unnecessary lighting - leading to vast improvements in efficiency, perhaps saving half a billion tons of carbon emissions in Britain alone each year. "Energy sensors are going to be a massive part of our future," says Crosier. Perhaps Eaton would like to buy some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape Of Things To Come | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...their tax forms in there," joked Boston official Timothy McCarthy as he introduced Beantown's 50 BigBellys to residents. It's the mechanics inside that makes the trash compactors so distinctive. Each is equipped with a 40-watt solar panel connected to a 12-volt battery, which runs the motor (the battery guarantees that the BigBelly works rain or shine). At 540 lbs., it's not easy to steal. The unit costs about $4,000, about 10 times the price of a conventional garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...down and start the litany of complaints about inefficiencies. Gringo amnesia is having the lights go out in your village and forgetting that lights go out in the States too. Or getting irritated at a long line and forgetting what it's like to stand at the Department of Motor Vehicles. We went down determined to do things the Mexican way, and it was appreciated by our Mexican friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ?Viva El Gringo! | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...charge; in the passenger seat of a crowded airline, we might as well be cargo. So white-knuckle flyers routinely choose the car, heedless of the fact that at most a few hundred people die in U.S. commercial airline crashes in a year, compared with 44,000 killed in motor-vehicle wrecks. The most white-knuckle time of all was post--Sept. 11, when even confident flyers took to the roads. Not surprisingly, from October through December 2001 there were 1,000 more highway fatalities than in the same period the year before, in part because there were simply more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Americans Are Living Dangerously | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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