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...democracy uprising feels over. Even the monsoon rains--such a feature of these once joyous protests, with the monks marching shin-deep through flooded streets--have petered out. The sun returns, and a cheerless rainbow arcs across the city. "Peace and stability restored, traveling and marketing back to normal in Yangon," trumpets The New Light of Myanmar...
...lack of water that felled her. It was too much water. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine found that an alarming number of runners and other athletes are risking a similar fate. The problem is that drinking too much water dilutes the blood's normal salt content...
After dominating the competition in the first round, things returned to normal on Sunday, when she shot a 77. The score, however, was good enough to win the individual tournament championship by six strokes...
...directly responsible for these health hazards, but data from other recent studies have been enough to convince physicians to change their so-called transfusion trigger. Doctors have traditionally waited until the patient's hematocrit - the proportion of the blood made up of red blood cells - drops below the normal range of 45% to 55% before transfusing. Now, doctors prefer to wait longer, until it falls below 30%. "There is still a lot of controversy about the trigger," says Dr. Lynne Uhl, a transfusion specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, "but the growing data has reinforced the practice that...
...aggressive” people enjoy “aggressive” entertainment. Hardly a profound statement condemning the gaming industry. Henry Jenkins, the Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, even concluded that no research has found that a violent video game “could turn an otherwise normal person into a killer.” (And with all those copies of “Halo 3” sold—thank goodness!) Jenkins has also raised the point that, as proven by a report from the Surgeon General, the biggest risk factors for school shootings center upon...