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01 Nov 09

Well - The Human Body Is Built for Distance - NYTimes.com

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30 Oct 09

Op-Ed Contributor - The Mismeasure of Woman - NYTimes.com

On the progress or lack thereof in women's equality in society.

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in 1983, women earned only 64 cents for every dollar earned by a man
Today? Women earn just 77 cents. By other measures, women’s gains have stalled: board seats and corporate officer posts have been flat — or declined in recent years
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- According to the American Bar Association, women in 2008 made up almost half of all associates, but only 18.3 percent of partners. Only 15 women run Fortune 500 companies.
- Even the positive numbers we’ve heard about during the recession are misleading — the ones that seem to indicate that women have suffered fewer job losses than men. The reason? Women are still concentrated in lower-paying fields, rather than the high-paying industries like finance and real estate that were hardest hit.
- Glenn Beck of Fox News suggesting that “ugly women” are probably “progressive as well,”
- Part of the reason we’ve lost our way, part of the reason my generation became complacent, is that many of us have been defining progress for women too narrowly. We’ve focused primarily on numbers at the expense of attitudes.
- Progress in one area without the other is no progress at all.
- women are less apt to fall apart — and this goes even for the primary breadwinners — because they are less likely to define themselves by their job in the first place

As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up - NYTimes.com

Silly jurors and the internet make for mad judges and lawyers.

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The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country
They are required to reach a verdict based on only the facts the judge has decided are admissible, and they are not supposed to see evidence that has been excluded as prejudicial.
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- violating the legal system’s complex rules of evidence
- with the Internet now as close as a juror’s pocket, the risk has grown more immediate — and instinctual
- the rules of evidence, developed over hundreds of years of jurisprudence, are there to ensure that the facts that go before a jury have been subjected to scrutiny and challenge from both sides, said Olin Guy Wellborn III, a law professor at the University of Texas
- Some courts are beginning to restrict the use of cellphones by jurors within the courthouse, even confiscating them during the day, but a majority do not, Mr. Keene said. And computer use at home, of course, is not restricted unless a jury is sequestered.
- Information flowing out of the jury box can be nearly as much trouble as the information flowing in
- The court cannot even give a full explanation to jurors about research — say, to tell them what not to look for — so instructions are usually delivered as blanket admonitions
- it’s up to Juror 11 to make sure Juror 12 stays in line

Editorial - The Commander’s Duty Done - NYTimes.com

It was a small strategic footnote during the Bush administration, but it REALLY bothered me that they went so far as to try and manipulate things by banning coverage of the dead. WTF. I'm really glad this administration has repealed that.

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Without uttering a public word, Mr. Obama erased President George W. Bush’s shameful attempts to hide the pain of war from Americans and to shield himself from paying public tribute to the thousands who died
The Bush policy was to prohibit any news media coverage of the returning war dead and to never show the president within a camera-lens’ length of the dolorous homecomings.
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- The true cost of war must never be denied by the nation or its leader.
- President Bush never dared as much

Helping Elders Along the Digital Path - NYTimes.com

Technology for the elderly. Less on devices, more on usage and social acceptance.

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State of the Art - New (and Improved) Models From Motorola, HTC and BlackBerry - NYTimes.com

Pogue on the new releases of the Hero, Cliq, and Storm 2. Even though he's an Apple apologist (read Apple whore), he does decent (p)reviews.

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New Chief Positions Motorola for a Rebound - NYTimes.com

Motorola apparently has decent management now.

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Magazine Preview - The Obamas’ Marriage - NYTimes.com

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They will discern whether politics can bring about the kind of change they have longed for and promised to others, or whether the compromises and defeats are too great.

22 Oct 09

Op-Ed Columnist - Let Congress Go Without Insurance - NYTimes.com

Info on the history of health reform, in addition to the op-ed.

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21 Oct 09

A Thin Line Separates Insider Trading and Legal Research - NYTimes.com

Distinguishing between insider trading and good research. New case highlights the difficulty of identifying which is which.

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For Car Buyers, the Brand Romance Is Gone - NYTimes.com

Massive shift away from brand loyalty. Graph of change since the 1980s is shocking.

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12 Oct 09

Op-Ed Contributor - The High Cost of Empty Prisons - NYTimes.com

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This measure will further reduce New York’s prison population, which has already declined, in the past 10 years, from about 71,600 in 1999 to about 59,300 today.

Virus Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - NYTimes.com

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68 of 101 patients with the syndrome, or 67 percent, were infected with an infectious virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV. By contrast, only 3.7 percent of 218 healthy people were infected.
XMRV is a retrovirus, a member of the same family of viruses as the AIDS virus. These viruses carry their genetic information in RNA rather than DNA, and they insert themselves into their hosts’ genetic material and stay for life.
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- “I think this establishes what had always been considered a psychiatric disease as an infectious disease,”

It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon? - NYTimes.com

On zero-tolerance bans of "weapons" in schools.

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a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school, along with a knife to cut it
Education experts say that zero-tolerance policies initially allowed authorities more leeway in punishing students, but were applied in a discriminatory fashion.
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- it expelled a seventh-grade girl who had used a utility knife to cut windows out of a paper house for a class project

21st Century Babies - The Gift of Life, and Its Price - NYTimes.com

Article on the costs of IVF treatments on families and society.

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The government estimates that caring for premature infants costs $26 billion a year, including $1 billion for IVF babies, expenses that eventually get passed through the system and on to businesses and consumers.
In 2006, a record 137,085 twins were born in the United States, double the number in 1980. Of that total, 23,284 were the result of IVF, according to government statistics. The number does not include twins born as a result of other fertility treatments.
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- cerebral palsy, which occurs four to six times as frequently in twins as in single babies
- A busy fertility clinic can be extraordinarily lucrative, generating millions of dollars a year. And fertility doctors can take on godlike status in their communities for delivering their priceless commodities.
- Some public health experts are frustrated by the disconnect between the medical risk of twins and society’s perception.
- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hired an economist to predict what would happen if single embryo transfer were used in a large number of IVF cases.
  Dr. Macaluso, the C.D.C. reproductive health official, estimates the patients, businesses and insurance providers would save more than $500 million annually, even taking into consideration the cost of extra in-vitro rounds, by lowering neonatal intensive care, special education and other costs of premature babies.

10 Oct 09

Common misconceptions about the Nobel Peace Prize - Yahoo! News

Info regarding the nobel peace prize.

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09 Oct 09

Cases - A Final Round of Therapy, Fulfilling the Needs of 2 - NYTimes.com

On handling death's approach.

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08 Oct 09

Study Looks Into the Health Benefits of Pets - NYTimes.com

New studies being sought for insight on the therapeutic benefits of animals.

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Anecdotes abound on the benefits of companion animals — whether service and therapy animals or family pets — on human health. But in-depth studies have been rare.
most studies focused on negative interactions, like the ways pets could spread disease
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- Children being treated for serious illnesses often have the blues, anxiety or depression. “The dogs brighten them up,”
- the animals become part of the therapeutic program, especially in the areas involving speech and movement
- “The human-animal bond bypasses the intellect and goes straight to the heart and emotions and nurtures us in ways that nothing else can,”

Skin Deep - Dentists See More Teeth Grinding in Stressful Times - NYTimes.com

Increase in teeth grinding due to stress.

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a rise in the number of teeth grinders
in San Diego, Dr. Gerald McCracken said that over the last 18 months his number of cases had more than doubled
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- Because it is a subconscious muscle activity, most grinders grind without realizing it, until a symptom such as a fragmented tooth or facial soreness occurs.
- The most expensive option for rebuilding teeth damaged by grinding is with veneers, but this year, dentists say that many of their bruxism patients are requesting one of the least costly treatments: a night guard, also known as an occlusal splint.
- New drugstore products have also come to market, including a disposable night guard, Grind-No-More (about $30 for 14 guards). Its makers hope it will appeal to on-again-off-again grinders.
- “Normally, we exert about 20 to 30 pounds per square inch on our back molars when we chew,” Dr. Rawdin said. “But teeth grinders, especially at night without restraint, can exert up to as much as 200 pounds per square inch on their teeth.”
- Some nocturnal grinders will grind up to 40 minutes of every hour of sleep. The relentless wear and tear can quickly erode enamel (10 times faster than that of nongrinders), fracture teeth, affect bite and damage the temporomandibular joint at the hinge of the jaw, and the masseter muscle
- Botox injections into the masseter muscle
- Lately, I even tell my patients, before they go to bed, not to watch the news.

Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com

The benefit of the absurd or unsettling.

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Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends — and when told they’ve done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school’s winning teams.
Brain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world
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- studies have found that people in the grip of the uncanny tend to see patterns where none exist — becoming more prone to conspiracy theories, for example. The urge for order satisfies itself, it seems, regardless of the quality of the evidence.