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...what exactly I expected the flight attendant to do about my plight. Return for the bag separately? Tell me to leave it in on the floor for the clean-up crew? Have me toss it to the family of five seated in the back row and ask them to tip it on into the restroom? What I most certainly did not expect was that, in the wake of our exchange, said attendant would become so anxious about what precisely I would do with my toxic cargo that I would be given permission to leave my seat and take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Security Mom's Take on Terrorism | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

...with unusual frequency after sitting on their brushes to clean inside chimneys.In his biology of cancer course, Marshall says he learned that benzopyrene, like all compounds produced from burning organic materials, is hydrophobic.He says these facts inspired him to design a better cigarette filter, which he called ROMAR. The tip of the filter is hydrophobic, so it filters benzopyrene far more effectively than a standard filter, he says as he shows data from his preliminary tests on the device.None of Marshall’s inventions has been produced commercially, although he says he believes that tobacco companies have found...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bookbinder Doubles As Inventor | 1/18/2006 | See Source »

WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY? High energy costs will shave up to half a point off GDP growth in 2006, predicts Stephen Brown, an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank--"a drag on the economy," he says, but not enough of one to tip us into recession. Still, slower growth means there will be pockets of pain. In Iowa, applications to the state's energy-assistance program are up 8%. Public schools, hit with high heating bills, are turning down the thermostat and spending less on field trips. David Callis, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Energy Crisis? | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...mean that the same quantity of drug hits harder and stays in the body longer. Older users who think they're keeping their doses fixed are thus, in effect, steadily increasing them. What's more, the loss of a spouse or job or merely the boredom of retirement could tip the nonuser into experimentation and the borderline user into full-blown addiction. Moses, 57, never touched heroin until 2001, when his wife died. But when he picked it up, he got hooked fast. "I missed my wife. I was lonely," he says. "I didn't want to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...part of the world where people can be killed for trinkets, the astronomical U.S. bounty on Zawahiri - plus whatever the CIA is offering from its discretionary slush fund - has no doubt inspired countless bounty hunters and snitches peddling dubious information. It's too soon to say whether the tip that caused the U.S. to target a benighted village in northwest Pakistan was real or just another false lead. In fact, the identities of those who died in the strike may never be established to the satisfaction of the U.S., given the difficulties of obtaining unbiased witness accounts and the even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Would the U.S. Know if it Killed a Qaeda Chief? | 1/14/2006 | See Source »

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