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...women, the big challenge is weeding out the guys who are looking for sex--or a topless housekeeper or a personal masseuse--from the ones who genuinely want a platonic setup. Verve, who found her roommates by posting ads at grocery stores, says life got uncomfortable with one man, a music producer, when he began complaining, "'You cook for me, and then you just run off.' I was like, 'That's what I'm here for. Not to watch sports with you.'" Men also worry about sending confusing signals. McCarthy says he "purposefully picked someone I wasn't attracted...
...that Slingbox is outpacing most debut devices. "We're actually on a pretty torrid pace for a new technology,'' he says. It's helped that critics have raved about his gizmo. "Once you have it, you'll wonder why everyone else doesn't," gushed msnbc in March. True, the setup can be tricky - users have to tie the device into an Internet router as well as into a TV set-top box, and they have to download software. And Slingbox makes the rights to programming trickier still. Paul Whitehead, head of business development for British commercial TV network Channel...
...Ardayfio and Kim found that, while normal mice readily explored the new area, mice which had received long-term doses of the rodent equivalent of cortisol via drinking water were reluctant to explore and exhibited symptoms that the researchers characterized as anxiety. Anxiety in mice placed in this experimental setup generally predicts how humans will react to stress. In another experiment, Ardayfio and Kim showed that chronically dosed mice reacted less strongly to sudden stress, a sign that they were burnt out. After Ardayfio defends his dissertation next month, he hopes to study the cellular and molecular pathways associated with...
Having raised around $285,000 from fellow alumni—the majority of which will go toward the scholarship fund—Tavrow convinced the University to sign on to the program. The new setup allows alumni to donate directly to the scholarship fund instead of the University, while still having their donation recognized by Harvard...
...mail] came from a confidential informant, but we have reason to believe it came from the police, hoping it would make all the players nervous," says one defense lawyer. "That didn't work." A spokesperson at the Durham Police Department would not comment on the allegations of a setup, and said she would not forward TIME's inquiries to any of her superiors over the holiday weekend. No one at the Durham County District Attorney's Office could be reached for comment Friday...