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...laced with pollutants. Chief among them: mercury, which can increase the risk of heart disease. Should you fish or cut bait? So far it's a draw, with two major studies coming to opposite conclusions. Until more studies are completed, doctors believe that the benefits of fish outweigh the risks, except for pregnant women and nursing moms, who should avoid swordfish and shark to protect their babies from mercury exposure...
...premium-rate number - which can cost up to €2.20 a minute - to claim a "mystery award." But an "unreasonable delay" during the call meant that consumers were saddled with an expensive phone bill. SMS scams are becoming more frequent because the rewards - lucrative kickbacks from phone operators - outweigh financial penalties, according to Gartner's Wood. Still, most SMS ads are legitimate, says Wood, since global brands don't want their names associated with scams. The goal is to establish a hip, positive image, so that when people think of SMS they think of G-strings, not of getting their...
...what should be permissible and what should not? Does the promise of a new technology outweigh the risks that it could be misused? The challenges are too important to address in a climate of fear or ignorance or to be distorted by the greed or vainglory of renegade scientists with an alien agenda. --Reported by Melissa August/Washington, Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Jeff Israely/Rome and Tim Padgett/Miami
There are some obvious advantages to having a very formal tutor evaluation procedure, perhaps even (though this is much less obvious) one based on numerical rankings. But there are also some clear negatives. I believe that for Leverett House, the negatives outweigh the positives, which is why we have not participated...
...message. It has been President Bush's role from the earliest days to handle our hopes, reacquaint us with our resilience and remind our allies of our resolve. It has fallen to Vice President Cheney, a nighthawk with a darker imagination, to focus our fears. The risks of inaction outweigh the risks of action, he warned this summer, because we face an enemy that will never relent and never recede until it is destroyed...