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If epidemiologists had been able to pick up those early media reports about SARS, the disease might not have gone on to kill nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Swine Flu Outbreak Coming? Ask Your iPhone | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

For many people, summer is a period of relaxation and resting on one’s laurels after a year of hard work. For others, it is a chance to ambitiously push ahead and surpass previous achievements, no matter how remarkable those might have been. On the evidence of ?...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dirty Projectors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

Some students, however, are skeptical of whether the application will be useful in practice.

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swine Flu Tracking iPhone Application Debuts | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

4. On the different motivations for young and old workers: "For older workers, a job is far more than merely a paycheck. In fact, older people and younger workers tested significantly differently on seven of the eight reasons for working tested in the survey. The exception: Nearly seven-in-ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Older Workers Are Happier | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

The idea is to make climate-change predictions a bit more like the weather report, in both accuracy and accessibility. Right now scientists' understanding of global warming is the opposite of the 6 p.m. forecast. While climatologists have a better and better picture of what will happen to the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Geneva, Designing a Global Climate-Alert System | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

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