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SIZE MATTERS Some of the new sets are bigger and thinner than before. A prototype Samsung plasma screen measures a record 80 in. diagonally. And for something really skinny, RCA has developed a rear-projection TV that's less than 7 in. thick...
...researchers suspect, do the neurotransmitters epinephrine and norepinephrine, whose usual job is to pump up our energy when we're in danger. Blood-plasma levels of both chemicals increase during masturbation, peak at orgasm and then decline, and by-products of norepinephrine metabolism remain elevated for up to 23 hours after sex. It's not yet clear, though, whether this is a cause or an effect of arousal...
LUXURY DORMS: Plasma TVs and Jacuzzis are pulling in students...
...State Street Village residence hall, designed by renowned architect Helmut Jahn, is constructed of corrugated, stainless-steel panels and walls of tinted glass. Inside, a glass elevator glides from pristine courtyards to a fifth-floor penthouse, where there's a sleek lounge with leather sofas and a 50-in. plasma TV. Botway's 250sq.ft. corner room has floor-to-ceiling picture windows that offer a panoramic view of the city skyline and a wireless Internet connection that, among other uses, lets her know when her laundry is done. Says the freshman, 18, from East Setauket, N.Y.: "I was, like...
Here, unlike in Yunnan, HIV spread not through illegal behavior but through blood donation. In the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma. It was a program intended to benefit all Chinese--the poor by giving them a way to supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers...