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...STUDENTS WEIGH...
...little guidance, says Gerard Catapano, who supervised the magazine's test. While there were some standouts in each category--conventional TVs, plasma, LCD and rear-projection--there was no clear winner. Each technology has its inherent drawbacks. The best picture-tube and rear-projection televisions, for example, can weigh more than 200 lbs. Plasma sets (named for the pixels of gas in the screen that are turned into plasma by an electrical charge) can sometimes experience "burn-in," when an image, such as a station identifier, leaves an imprint on the screen. The images on LCD (liquid-crystal display...
...blogs, the blogger's initial surprise--"Why would people want to read about me and my family?"--typically yields to pleasure rather than embarrassment. Jean-Marie Maier was startled at first when strangers entered a contest she put on her pregnancy blog to guess how much her newborn would weigh. "It's weird that people we don't know would bother," says Maier, 32, a marketing consultant in Sunrise, Fla. Yet the encouraging responses she has received have been so positive, Maier doesn't mind...
...effort to gather student opinion on Allston, the University will now offer undergraduates the chance to weigh in on the planned campus expansion across the river...
...rate, what's now clear is that hormone supplementation--estrogen alone or in combination--is best suited for short-term relief (two years or less) of moderate to severe menopausal symptoms. As with any treatment, it's up to women and their doctors to weigh the risks--slight but very real--against the potential benefits...