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...performance of laboratory animals by bombarding their bodies with 4 W/kg of radio waves. To adapt this to humans, engineers first divided 4 W/kg by a safety factor of 10, and later by a factor of 5, and came up with .08 W/kg. According to a scientific rule of thumb, that is the equivalent of 1.6 W/kg--the federal standard--when the radiation is directed at a specific part of the body...
...DUST In his last days in office, George Bush laid a few land mines for Bill Clinton, such as sending troops to Somalia and bombing Iraq only days before Clinton's Inauguration. Returning the favor with a raft of last-minute appointments, pardons and Executive Orders that thumb a nose at George W.'s Administration, Clinton...
...through mutual funds and 401(k) plans, compared with just 4% in 1952. When the market rises, Americans feel wealthy. In 1999, when the Dow gained 25% and the NASDAQ soared 85%, household assets swelled by $5.5 trillion. This "wealth effect" translates into increased spending. The rule of thumb is that for every additional dollar in their portfolios, Americans spend another 3[cents] to 5[cents]. That discretionary income is critical: consumer spending constitutes almost two-thirds of the nation's economic activity...
...depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight and out of shape, he will no longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that, by 1997, a whole group of them in California decided they couldn't wait any longer and left our soon-to-explode planet early. By 1999, Pat Robertson was selling tickets to seminars where people...
...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...