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...eventful year for massage-therapy research. In March, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine published a study finding that Swedish massage, shiatsu foot massage, and acupuncture helped reduce pain and depression in postoperative cancer patients. An October 2007 pilot study by the Mayo Clinic showed that massage significantly reduced pain levels in patients recovering from heart surgery, prompting the internationally renowned treatment center to bring a full-time massage therapist onboard. That same month, the American Massage Therapy Association published a survey in which 30% of all respondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post-Op Rx: Get a Massage | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

...beauty of paper-based media does not change the fact that, as this page often moans, “Paper is so 20th century,” which is why I, as part of Harvard College’s Resource Efficiency Program, am helping to implement a pilot project in Winthrop and Currier that allows students to opt out of receiving the paper at their doors daily. The program, which also allows students to opt out of delivery of other student publications and fliers, aims to reduce the use of paper on campus. It is with a heavy heart that...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Wistfully Wasteless | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...have any cell-phone-payment pilot projects going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards and Spendthrifts | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...more with cell phones in other parts of the world, which will come to the U.S., I expect. We have a deal with the GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] Association in which we're going to work together to create a person-to-person money-transfer pilot. We're not sure where yet, but we'll be making an announcement soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards and Spendthrifts | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...software had maxed out, and by 2004 he was looking for the next big thing. He found it in the emerging clean-tech sector - which encompasses renewable energy, environmental efficiency and water - and discovered the struggling start-up Seattle Biodiesel, which had just been launched by a former airline pilot. Tobias injected badly needed capital, eventually buying 20% of the company and becoming CEO of the renamed Imperium Renewables. ("Less local," he explains.) More funding came from angel investors and successful rounds of venture financing, and today Imperium is set to break ground on new plants in Hawaii, Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on Green | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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