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POPSThe Role of Light on Human Health Rea envisions "real-time light prescriptions" to help people receive or avoid light at the appropriate times. Simple measures to control when and how much circadian light we receive could help nightshift workers stay alert on the job and sleep more effectively during the day, help cure jet lag, decrease depression, and generally help everyone get a proper night's sleep. The ability to modify circadian rhythm could potentially mitigate the negative health effects that some researchers believe are brought on by disruptions to the light-dark cycle. Recent studies have found a link between health and changes in the natural circadian rhythm. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a series of articles, for example, that showed night shift workers had a higher incidence of breast cancer; and, last year, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer cited night work as a potential breast cancer risk factor.
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POPSJournalism Update from the University of Texas Revealing her bias toward belief that she is guided by a higher power, and believing that Rather is a icon (rather than that the traitor from which Hannity would withhold his "You are a great American" comment), Ms. Page writes a nice column.
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POPSIt's Not Easy Being Ultra-Rich The poor whine about having no home at all, or maybe a two-bedroom apartment for a family of six. They should just think for one moment that it's damn expensive to be rich. Consider the costs of maintaining up to five different homes, some of them up to 45,000 square feet in size, most with tennis courts and wine cellars requiring constant supervision. For example, if the boss is in Palm Beach and wants to send his jet to New York to pick up a Chateau LaTour from his South Hampton cellar, the butler makes it happen . A mean-spirited critic might grumble that the rich should simply find a new circle of friends. But if you were in the $100-million-in-assets set, you could hardly consort with the class of people for whom a pittance like $10,000 might be a transformative sum, possibly allowing granny to get her insulin. People of that class could not be trusted not to pocket the silverware in your powder room. L.q.
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POPSCode "ATFM exempt" ABUSE by CIA. Equivalant to blue flashing lights! About 390 CIA-run flights through German airspace were in violation of German law, and Berlin could have collected millions of euros in fines. Now internal investigations could make things embarrassing for Gerhard Schröder's government as well as the United States. On July 19, 2002, a Gulfstream business jet took off from Frankfurt am Main bound for Amman, Jordan. The flight received an ATFM exempt, although it carried neither patients nor politicians. Instead, the jet was carrying a CIA team that took a Mauritanian terrorism suspect into custody a short time later and eventually flew him to Guántánamo. This camouflaging of an illegal kidnapping as a rescue flight was no isolated incident.
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POPSPocket-Sized Powerhouse "Illustration of Circinus X-1 This artist's illustration depicts the jet of relativistic particles blasting out of Circinus X-1, a system where a neutron star is in orbit with a star several times the mass of the Sun. The neutron star, an extremely dense remnant of an exploded star consisting of tightly packed neutrons, is seen as the sphere at the center of the disk. The powerful gravity of the neutron star pulls material from the companion star (shown as the blue star in the background) into a so-called accretion disk surrounding it. Through a process that is not fully understood, a jet of material moving at nearly the speed of light is generated. A high percentage of the energy available from material falling toward the neutron star is converted into powering this jet. " ...http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/cirx1/more.html#ill_xrayBinaryJets
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POPSIncrease In Close Calls In The Skies This really frightens me. What do they mean by unidentified or unknown planes? UFOs? Crop dusters? Private pilots just fluffing around? How can they not know where everyone is in the sky?? What about radars? GPS? Radio transponders? Why this strange spike? Is this just in the northeast or symptomatic of overcrowded skies everywhere? This bit below is just so reassuring. Geeeez..... :confused: ...they've lost 1,000 controllers in recent years that have not been replaced, leaving those on the job overworked and stressed.
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POPSWhich brands do teens trust most? There's 10 more at the source. Interesting to see who rates. I agree with the top 6 at least. In-N-Out Burger is good enough to make me want to move to California!
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POPSCEO of Jet Blue Loses Job The folks over at JetBlue Airways apparently think this will help them win back the loyalty andaffection of their passengers.
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POPSJet Blue Passengers Nightmare At JFK; Stuck For Hours On Tarmack Unbelievable. I think my patience would have been to the limit as well. I have an autistic daughter. I cannot even imagine going through this with her. She has NO patience for even for a simple 30 minute doctors appointment with toys and coloring books brought to keep her occupied. This would have been pure hell. These poor families.
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