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...programs off the ground in the developing world and among lower-income women, Sankaranarayanan says. Indeed, the current standard in HPV tests, the Hybrid Capture II, which was used for this study, is already too costly for wide-scale application, running as much as $30 per test. Realistically, in order to be used on a grand scale, tests would have to cost about $1 each, Sankaranarayanan estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HPV Test Screens Best for Cervical Cancer | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Tononi and a growing number of other scientists believe that sleep - not just in flies but also in higher-order mammals - may perform such a pressure-releasing role. During sleep, researchers theorize, the brain actively prunes the neural network laid out during waking hours, trimming away weaker connections that haven't been used in a while or weren't strong enough to begin with. The stronger connections are believed to be filed during sleep into long-term memory, where they can be accessed again and again as needed. All this nocturnal tidying creates room for new connections to be formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Is Sleep? New Lessons from the Fruit Fly | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Russian resurgence. At the same time, harebrained schemes for further expansion must be reconsidered. Toward that end, NATO must adopt a more comprehensive agenda—one that tackles larger issues like energy and information security, economic stability, and the details of military and security cooperation—in order to remain an effective guarantor of European peace and stability...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Building a Better NATO | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...They were not able to incorporate composting in their dish rooms then, and they still have not been able because of structural reasons and space.” Eliot, Leverett and the Quad houses do not have Somat food waste pulpers, which grind excess food down automatically. In order to start composting manually, Pforzheimer dining hall workers will set food waste aside in yellow composting barrels without having the waste grinded. Food waste to be composted—either made into pulp by machine or manually collected—is bagged and put into marked barrels, from which...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfoho To Begin Food Composting | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...days to avoid bankruptcy court. Rattner will have to browbeat intransigent bondholders. Bloom will have to force major benefit cuts on the unions. And both will have to sell management on a radical reordering of their companies, one in which both capital and labor take a serious hit in order to keep the machine running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Auto Odd Couple Tries to Save Detroit | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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