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...year, networks inundate the TV-viewing public with a veritable flood of plot-twisting, cringe-inducing, shark-jumping moments in the hopes they'll tune in - please, just tune in - in order to give the networks a vital boost during the critical periods when Nielsen Media Research takes its regular survey of TV viewing habits. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
...Though shipping is still the most resource-efficient way to move containers, large ships use some of the dirtiest fuel on the planet. Ships' bunker fuel is a thick, black sludge leftover from the refining process and has about 2,000 times the sulfur of regular diesel fuel. When bunker fuel burns, it releases a host of toxins, including sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, that can lead to respiratory problems and acid rain. Now a better understanding of the health impact of shipping and commercial boats - combined with high oil prices and tighter general pollution restrictions - is sparking what could...
...billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning group for which even a DSL connection on a regular computer is a much too slow and inconvenient means of accessing e-mail. And while there has been no such survey, it’s fair to say that this rising demographic also illustrates (at least to some extent) the concomitant development of a new type of reader, for whom...
...Originally the clinic was intended for those without health insurance or access to regular medical care, but Los Angeles County was allowing anyone in high-risk categories defined by the CDC to get the vaccine. This group included pregnant women, health-care and emergency-services personnel, those living or caring for infants under six months of age and people aged 25 to 64 with health conditions that put them at higher risk for flu-related complications. (Test your knowledge about the H1N1 virus...
...known children, the awful realization that his father was a terrorist mastermind who was plotting a global conspiracy that would destroy the lives of thousands of innocent people and even his own family came gradually. Of course, there were warning signs: Omar's childhood was marked by regular beatings and survivalist training; the growing army of ruffians and retainers who called his father "Prince"; and that Afghan mullah who had given his father an entire mountain in Tora Bora...