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...right? Opponents of bisphenol A say official safety figures are far too high, given what the chemical, which mimics the hormone estrogen in the body, does in animals. In the lab, even low exposure levels - adjusted for body weight - have been linked to a variety of sex-hormone-imbalance effects, including breast and prostate cancer, early puberty, miscarriage, low sperm count, and immune-system changes. Critics also claim that in developing infants, such sex-hormone effects may come into play at exposure levels far below what health authorities have deemed safe for adults. "The reproductive system is developing, the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Plastic Baby Bottles Harmful? | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...very much about humans. For one thing, when humans ingest the compound, it's quickly excreted through the urine; when rats and mice eat it, it's released into the bloodstream and remains in the body much longer - with much more time to throw off the body's sex-hormone balance, causing nasty effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Plastic Baby Bottles Harmful? | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...problem with Hillary’s political waffling intensified, in my mind, when considering the current political milieu. Terrorism, not sex scandals, now run across the pages of American newspapers. Many Republicans, members of a party dominated by right wing militants, now consider John McCain too liberal. In such an environment the conservative movement is so pronouncedly influential and visible that what democracy needs is a countermovement to balance politics—not compromising cowards who accommodate the extreme...

Author: By Sahand Moarefy | Title: A Liberal’s Case Against Clinton | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...party they did. For half an hour early yesterday morning, the actress, singer, socialite, and sex-tape star regaled a starstruck house at the Boston nightclub Rumor...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...fuzzed-out new-wave riff. The instrumental din is completed by the echo of a toxic chromium scrape at the back of the mix, interrupted only by the chorus, a gregarious proclamation of the title.On previous albums, Merritt’s lyrics poked fun at contemporary conceptions of sex. “Distortion,” however, pushes those levels beyond the absurd and into the downright Freudian, with characters that indulge admittedly confused desires for sex and death in equal (and sometimes identical) measure. “California Girls,” an infectious pop guitar-wash featuring vocals...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Magnetic Fields | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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