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...sense," according to Dr. Michael Cabana, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who led the study. One of the most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed...
...1970s, South Korea ran a program to develop technology to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. By 1976, it was in the final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says...
...revenue, according to a source close to the company. That would mean the firm is collecting over $2 million per employee, which is phenomenal. (By comparison, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, takes in roughly $1.2 million per employee.) Companies like Nextel, Purdue Pharma and the nuclear-power-plant operator Entergy hire the firm to advise them on logistics and security. And, of course, for the name Giuliani...
...have asked if he thinks peace is even possible. Can the U.S.'s enemies ever be defeated, and can you really use an army to plant democracy in an Arab country? That is the question he comes back to in the hot driveway after the formal interview is over, what he says it's all about--the campaign, the presidency, the one thing he has learned for certain after nearly four years as leader of the free world. "If I didn't think it was possible," he says, "I would bring the troops home tomorrow. Why would I risk losing...
...revenue, according to a source close to the company. That would mean the firm is collecting over $2 million per employee, which is phenomenal. (By comparison, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, takes in roughly $1.2 million per employee.) Companies like Nextel, Purdue Pharma and the nuclear-power-plant operator Entergy hire the firm to advise them on logistics and security. And, of course, for the name Giuliani...