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...flurry of technological cross-pollination between mobile phones and computers. At Computex, wireless telecommunications company Qualcomm rolled out a new subcategory of portable devices it calls "smartbooks" - small computers based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor that, because they don't require heat sinks or cooling fans, will be even thinner and lighter than many netbooks, yet can run for 10 hours without recharging and will be capable of fast wireless Internet connections via Wi-Fi and mobile phone networks...
...recommendations should be applied only to American patients, the IOM says. Although the guidelines use globally accepted BMI cutoffs determined by the World Health Organization to define pre-pregnancy obesity, the weight-gain recommendations may not be appropriate for women in other countries, who are shorter or thinner or have inadequate prenatal care...
...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...
Indeed, Malta calls that earlier report "disrespectful" and prefers to emphasize that Brazilians are relatively slim compared with their counterparts in the West. "I think Brazilians are still worried about their bodies. When we compare ourselves to the rest of the world, we are still much thinner," she tells TIME. "And remember, this is not just Brazilians that are getting fatter - this is a worldwide phenomenon...
...Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center say older, thicker sea ice, which once made up 30% to 40% of Arctic sea ice and is less prone to melting, makes up only 9.8% of this year's shrunken ice spread--the lowest level ever. The rest is thinner and more vulnerable to warmer summer temperatures. Researchers estimate that 80% of Arctic ice may melt over the next 30 years and eventually disappear altogether...