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That’s because since 1955, a growing prevalence of factories and pollution-emitting businesses along the river have made it unsafe for humans. In addition, an increasing number of various bacteria and toxic sediment have, due to its location on the river’s floor, been able to sit, then grow and spread, according to Lawaetz...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Charles Gets Green Light | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...these young patients, however, the strategy turns out to be extremely effective. Simply increasing the dose of certain agents, for instance, gives kids an advantage over some rapidly growing cancers. Young hearts, lungs and kidneys, it seems, are fairly resilient and can be bombarded with higher doses of toxic drugs than most adults can tolerate. And better medications for handling the side effects and consequences of chemotherapy and radiation--severe nausea, vomiting, anemia and infections--help children respond better to intensive treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Survivors | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...Aachi & Ssipak remind us of the joyous freedom of animation: the freedom its makers have, and the liberation of the audience from the timid constraints of 90% of live-action films. The animators' motto might be: We draw you in. And in that magic or toxic world, anything is possible. Can a dream resolve our waking dilemmas? Can excrement induce ecstasy? Can duck sing a gay version of The Pirates of Penzance? Can a rat be a chef? In animation, the answer is always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats! Poo! Duck! | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...tightly cap your inbox. With data storage costs dropping, why can't you keep your messages, or download them to your computer? Imagine if Yahoo! let you keep just 30 or 40 email messages at a time. (Instead they offer unlimited, free email storage). "People treat voice mail like toxic waste," says Craig Walker, CEO and founder of GrandCentral, a startup that offers unlimited voice-mail storage. "They feel like they have to delete every single message. But what if they want to save something?" says Walker. "I have 10,000 emails in my inbox, which is incredibly valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Carrier Problem | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...Toxic Toyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Jul. 2, 2007 | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

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