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...surprise, then, that when pump prices reached $3.00 per gallon in September 2005 searches for "gas prices" surged to nearly 10 times their normal level. What is surprising is that "gas price" searches do not mirror the rise and fall of of what we pay at the pump. But once a price threshold is crossed, we become immediately -- although temporarily -- concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prius-Hummer Phenomenon | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...captures 27% of all visits from "gas price" searches. The site is a searchable database of local gas station prices submitted by cost-conscience users. Visitors to the site are primarily male (62.8%), over the age of 55 (56.3%), and on a fixed income earning less than $30,000 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prius-Hummer Phenomenon | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

Bendandi's vaccine also faces challenges common to other customized treatments: it's expensive (an estimated $34,000 per patient), it's difficult to make, and not all pharmaceutical companies (which make profits by mass-producing drugs) are able - or willing - to take on the work of producing a different vaccine for every patient. But with three Phase III clinical trials for idiotype vaccines under way in the U.S., and several other types of custom treatments in development (on March 29, an fda advisory committee found "substantial evidence" that a prostate cancer vaccine is effective, increasing the likelihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disease is the Remedy | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...someone lame is a “chach,” the physical act of love is to “juice.” Despite the seemingly niche topics and potentially alienating vocabulary, the site developed a following, at one point as large as a thousand readers per day.On the back of the blog’s success, Bressman landed a job at The New York Observer. He started off blogging for the paper, inexplicably, for its Bridal Blog. Knowing little about weddings, Bressman wrote about “love in general” and found himself...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blogging: The I-Banking of Harvard's Journalists | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

Fortunately though, this is not the case. Although X-rays are never good for you, the machine uses only 10 microRem of X-rays per scan, an extremely low dosage level that some experts deem inconsequential, even for pregnant women. In fact, according to the machine’s manufacturer, a single scan constitutes the same amount of radiation exposure that passengers receive for every two minutes spent in the air. In other words, getting scanned is roughly the equivalent of spending a couple of minutes extra on your next flight...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: This Time, X-Rays are OK | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

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