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...report noted the particular vulnerability of children, whose skulls, according to a French study, absorb twice as much cell-phone radiation as those of adults), what's not clear is whether that radiation causes harm. Scientists are waiting for the publication of a $30 million, 14,000-person international study called Interphone, which is meant to nail down the answer once and for all. But the study ended in 2006 and its authors are still squabbling over the interpretation of their data. To date, the "peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Radiation Risks: Why the Jury's Still Out | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond strangers and just short of friends. When people say they have 765 friends on Facebook, most of them are consequential strangers. Your hairdresser is probably a consequential stranger. Your lawyer may be. The person who comes in to clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom you see on occasion, people in a yoga class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Consequential Strangers | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...Feeling ill or calling on behalf of an ill person...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: FlyBy Got Harvard's Number! | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...October, union leaders will have initiated broad-based discussions within its 5,800-person organization about the state of their current workplace to prepare for formal contract negotiations with the University, according to HUCTW director Bill Jaeger. The current three-year contract expires on June...

Author: By Esther I. Yi and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard, Union To Discuss Contract | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...exercise machines, there is no real place for any victory other than one over your own self. There’s nothing to lose in working out (except maybe weight); even though the person on the treadmill next to you might have hit the five-mile marker first, your own run was still a successful step on the path toward good health. It should be met with a sense of accomplishment, not defeat...

Author: By Lea J. Hachigian | Title: Madness at the MAC | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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