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...cuts in the skin," says Dr. Daniel Sexton, an infectious disease specialist at the Duke University Medical Center, who consults for an NFL team and several college programs. "Any time you break that barrier, it becomes a portal through which bacteria can gain access." Staph prevention is pretty low-tech. "You know, this is pretty simple," Sexton says. "Hand washing remains the primary defense against the transmissions of most organisms, including staph. Most people don't think of a locker room as a place where hand hygiene is important, but locker rooms are also mini-emergency rooms...
Long gone are the days when parents immortalized their children’s birthday parties with an old 8mm camera. Embarrassing moments of our youth are now captured by high-tech digital video camcorders, which push film movies into the esoteric, ‘retro’ corner already occupied by the Polaroid camera. But Home Movie Day, which was hosted by the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Saturday, seeks to rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international...
...expect those left-handed middle relievers to score the same ludicrous contracts as in recent years. "Player salaries are extremely sensitive to market conditions," says Stanford University economist Roger Noll. "These players are going to get paid less next year." During the post-9/11, post-tech-bubble downturn earlier this decade, for instance, median baseball salaries dropped...
...market decline. Andy Chan, Assistant Dean and Director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, says he sees some students going through a kind of grief cycle, first coping with shock, then denial and disappointment. Many current MBA students graduated from college as the tech bubble was bursting, Chan points out, so they're frustrated at the prospect of once again graduating into a cold job market...
...their race to broaden the high-end market, the giants are competing with tech-savvy upstarts like Tcho and Amano. Founded by former nasa software developer Timothy Childs, Tcho brews limited-edition "beta" bars superb enough to extract $5 for a few bites. Childs classifies batches with wine descriptors like fruity, nutty and floral...