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...when most of Wall Street is winding down, Walter Zimmermann begins a high-stakes, high-wire act conducted live before a paying audience. About 200 institutional investors?including airlines and oil companies?shell out up to $3,000 a month to catch his daily webcast on the volatile energy markets, a performance that can move hundreds of millions of dollars. "I'm not paid to be wrong?I can tell you that," Zimmermann says. But as he clicks through dozens of screens and graphics on three computers, he's the picture of focused calm. Zimmermann, 54, watched most...
...helicopter pilots operating flight simulators, so does donepezil, a drug that raises levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. In another study, men on 200 mg of modafinil did better at mentally challenging games than subjects taking a placebo. But those results must be kept in perspective. Research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md., found that neither modafinil nor the military pilots' go pills were any better than several cups of coffee at restoring the attention and performance of sleep-deprived people...
...www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum, enables tourists to see and feel the effects of disease on the human body, and documents the shifting course of the history of medicine, says Jeffrey Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist...
...www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum, enables tourists to see and feel the effects of disease on the human body, and documents the shifting course of the history of medicine, says Jeffrey Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist...
...Benjamin Franklin: An American Life,” by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, 2003.) He invented the lightning rod, the bifocal, the Franklin stove, the fire department, and the safety school (Penn...