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...Blackbird now will be able to download the software for free. Not only will it contain the latest map of the U.S.; it will also activate the real-time traffic receiver built into the product. (Navteq currently tracks traffic in 31 cities, and will most likely charge $60 per year for the service...
...Child Left Behind program. The ceiling has been raised now, but not for America’s youth. If there is someone who needs Oprah’s Debt Diet, it is the men and women running our country. That—the $28,000 of per capita debt our federal state has saddled its children with—is something we should all remember during the election campaigns coming up later this year and beyond...
...College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board bitterly complained, although it is now heralded as visionary. And Sex Signals and the mandatory diversity training freshmen endure is another example, however perverse, of the College acting in loco parentis?...
...benefits of Ireland’s 2004 ban on smoking in public places. According to the study, pubs in cities without smoking bans had significantly higher levels of fine-particle pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency sets standards for outdoor, but not indoor, air quality; any levels above 301 micrograms per cubic meter are “hazardous.” The average level in smoking pubs was much higher at 340 micrograms per cubic meter. The results “underscore the importance of smoke-free policies,” according to the study’s authors. HSPH Professor...
...protein molecules one by one inside the cell. Using this new technology, Xie created a movie of the gene expression process. Xie’s study was funded in part by the prestigious National Institute of Science Director’s Pioneer Award, which provides half-a-million dollars per year for five years of research. Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Jeremy M. Berg said of Xie’s research, “He’s a real pioneer....This is exactly the type of research we really hoped to encourage with the Director?...