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...despite the wide use of levamisole, cases of agranulocytosis are relatively uncommon. According to government surveys, nearly 2 million Americans have used cocaine at least once in the past month. "Why aren't 90% of cocaine users [in San Francisco] getting sick?" wonders Graf, who says he sees about one case every few weeks, mostly in women. He suspects that men are less likely to be affected because they are less vulnerable to autoimmune disorders than women, but says the truth is that no one really knows why certain users become ill. Zhu and Graf urge users who are suffering...
...Everyone in the U.S. is consuming salt far in excess of what is good for them," says lead author Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of UCSF. "What we are suggesting is that a population-wide effort to reduce salt intake even slightly will have health benefits." (See the most crucial health issues around the world...
...beneath the somber mood of social consciousness, there was still a little room left for the Golden Globes gleam. After a further promise from Cameron to TIME to do his part for Haiti when the appropriate avenue presented itself, the director turned to his wife with the wide grin of a man with two big awards. "Let's go party," he said...
...first activist video game to reach a wide audience was Darfur Is Dying, a website-based game put out by MTV in 2006, in which gamers play refugees risking their lives to fetch water. In the game's first month, it reached 700,000 players. Since then, the game has prompted thousands of people to e-mail the White House or petition local representatives. It has also convinced MTV to include games in all its campaigns. "No other media enables you to literally run in someone's shoes," says Stephen Friedman, general manager of the music network. (See Techland...
...site—which enables students to coordinate campus-wide purchases and sales of items ranging from textbooks to refrigerators—was created by Sasank Konda ’12 and Kane Hsieh ’12 as their final project for Computer Science 50. The site will be launched on The Harvard Crimson’s Web site by the beginning of shopping period...