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...love winter. It means I get to wear a coat. This love isn't about fashion or warmth. It's about carrying capacity. As it is now, I spend summers looking as if I suffer from a gross deformity of the thighs, my mobile phone an unsightly lump in one trouser pocket and my personal digital assistant a suspicious bulge in the other. But another, svelter option may be coming, as efforts by electronics companies to cross-pollinate phones and digital organizers finally make headway. Coming to Asia are multifunction mobiles that are small, stylish and, best of all, they...
Because many seniors suffer from poor balance (whether from neurological deficits or from the inner-ear problems that increase naturally with aging), it also helps to install grab bars and handrails in bathrooms and along hallways...
...better hope not. If there is any part of the U.S. that could suffer California's fate soon, it would be New York City, where old transmission lines have a hard time bringing in enough power to satisfy the booming economy. Just as in California, getting a power plant built anywhere near the Big Apple can be a monumental task; in the decade and a half before the state deregulated, only one new large plant went up. There are now dozens of applications in the pipeline, but New York can't wait. So in spite of some vocal community opposition...
...first arise from a sheep disease gone spontaneously wild, something similar could happen here--and not just with sheep. U.S. officials have found that elk in Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler...
These injuries are not to be taken lightly. According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, only 25% of those who suffer hip fractures ever fully recover; as many as 20% will die within 12 months. Even when patients do recover, nearly half will need a cane or a walker to get around...