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...BETTER BLOOD TEST FOR BABY In a study of 202 infants, published in J.A.M.A., doctors found that the so-called CHr test caught 83% of iron-deficiency cases, while the standard hemoglobin test found just...
Over the course of four albums and innumerable appearances inside the heads of characters on The O.C., the Seattle-based quartet Death Cab for Cutie has established itself as the go-to band for a particular kind of postadolescent melancholy. The standard Death Cab song, sung in the earnest and always reasonable voice of Ben Gibbard, hews to the belief that the world is big and tough, that we are small and bruise easily--so let's stay small, stay together and hope for the best...
What makes Plans bearable--and sometimes even better than that--is extremely tight music. Death Cab's previous albums were always listenable but rarely arresting or tense. On Plans, the hooks are everywhere. Someday You Will Be Loved starts like a standard ballad until an exaggerated bass line kicks up during the first verse and gentle chaos begins. Marching Bands of Manhattan builds from a single keyboard chord into something joyful enough to counter the repetitions of "your love is gonna drown." On Crooked Teeth, each instrument plays a line that, isolated, could be the basis...
CELL PHONES Mobile search is mostly done today with limited text messaging, but by 2008, when more than 75% of new cell phones globally are expected to be Internet-ready, searching the Web on the go will be standard. On the street, and want to find out the nearest movie theater? Or get sports results? Pankaj Shah's mobile service 4INFO, which the 32-year-old launched this February in Palo Alto, Calif., will give you all the information--for free--by text or Internet on your cell phone. Yahoo! also offers such local information...
...they can assume more of the responsibility for defending their own country. Increasingly though that seems like a pipe dream even to conservatives who have supported the war. Last week no fewer than three conservative columnists expressed disappointment with the president. William Kristol, the neoconservative editor of The Weekly Standard, and a strong proponent of the Iraq war, wrote that it was a "terrible signal" to insurgents as well as allies to draw down forces at all; Tony Blankley, the editorial page editor of conservative The Washington Times, pondered why Bush wasn't asking for more troops, and former Bush...