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...protect Florida's plume birds, Schulberg decided he was done with Hollywood. He wrote several volumes of memoirs and adapted Sammy, Waterfront and his Fitzgerald novel, The Disenchanted, into Broadway shows. By the 1970s he had retired to Westhampton, L.I., as the grizzled grandee of American fiction, page and screen...
...Just a few weeks after the Modin quarantine, senior officials from across the government gathered in the basement of the West Wing to begin planning for the siege to come. On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series...
...children were sedentary for five hours each day, and 1.5 of those hours were spent in front of a TV, computer or video game, on average. When the researchers further broke down screen time by activity, TV-viewing had the strongest correlation with higher blood pressure. Kids watching from 90 to 330 minutes of television each day had systolic and diastolic blood-pressure readings (the two numbers that indicate pressure caused by blood pumping from the top and bottom chambers of the heart, respectively) that were five to seven points higher than those of children watching less than half...
...practice that they have a hard time paying for a hotel, the concept may sound dicey to the uninitiated. What about theft? Damage? Reasonable causes for concern, but equally unlikely. "Nobody is going to fly across the ocean or drive 600 miles to come steal your flat-screen TV," says Tony DiCaprio, president of 1stHomeExchange.com a four-year-old site that has seen membership increase 30% this year. Remember, he notes, "at the same time they're staying in your home, you are staying in their home...
...Robertson. While popular culture in the west often casts robots as forces of evil that pose a threat to world peace - or worse, job security - Japan "tends to see robots as a force for good," says Damien Thong, a technology analyst with Macquarie Securities in Tokyo. (See the silver screen's most memorable robots...