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...re a regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you've probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Some of the best blog writers publish once a week or less, and who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Let RSS Go Fetch | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...boyfriend constantly uses pet names when we’re together, and he always insists on kissing me in public. He’s so great, but this overload of affection is really getting to me. What should I do to let him know it’s getting on my nerves...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR NIKKI: Smoochin' and Surfin' | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...like amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite), which are said to enhance sexual pleasure and which had been used by many of the victims. Another theory held that repeated anal intercourse introduced sperm into the blood-stream and that this could cause profound immune suppression. Then there was the "immune-overload theory," which was based on the fact that many early AIDS patients were extremely active sexually, with hundreds of partners over the course of their lifetimes and long histories of venereal diseases and infections. Under the accumulated burden of so many infections, the overload theory suggested, their immune systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

There must be some way to reverse a trend that is so unhealthy for children, a trend that compels parents to overload their toddlers with extracurriculars and private tutors at the expense of playtime. There must be a way to convince parents that paying $17,000 a year in tuition for these pre-schools in order to gain some slight advantage somewhere far down the road just isn’t worth it. There is something wrong with the fact that my brother, who goes to a public school, came home from kindergarten to homework, test preparation, and almost...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg, | Title: A is for 'Type-A' | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

LIVING: Avoiding sugar overload; why stinky onions are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Nov. 8, 2004 | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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