By JOHN CASEY
Wind turbines, once used primarily for farms and rural houses far from electrical service, are becoming more common in heavily populated residential areas as homeowners are attracted to ease of use, financial incentives and low environmental effects.
No one tracks the number of small-scale residential wind turbines — windmills that run turbines to produce […]
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Mind : By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
“I’ve grown up on medication,” my patient Julie told me recently. “I don’t have a sense of who I really am without it.”
At 31, she had been on one antidepressant or another nearly continuously since she was 14. There was little question that she had very serious depression and […]
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Cases : By ANNA B. REISMAN, M.D.
I knelt down in front of the elderly woman’s wheelchair so she could see me. She wore a baby-blue sweatsuit and smelled of cigarettes and hair spray.
“My breathing,” she said in her gravelly voice, “it’s a little worse.”
An 84-year-old former hairdresser who had served in the Women’s Army Corps […]
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Well : By TARA PARKER-POPE
Few products are hated as much as hearing aids.
The devices can squeal with feedback and overamplify background noises like the click of a turn signal or whir of a ceiling fan. They must be removed for showering or sleeping, and their batteries die frequently. Many users, out of exasperation, decide they’d […]
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By GINA KOLATA
With little fanfare, a small number of prominent academic scientists have made a decision that was until recently all but unheard of. They decided to stop accepting payments from food, drug and medical device companies.
No longer will they be paid for speaking at meetings or for sitting on advisory boards. They may still […]
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By MICHAEL BARBARO
The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are unleashing a widening wave of bankruptcies in American retailing, prompting thousands of store closings that are expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country.
Since last fall, eight mostly midsize chains — as diverse as the furniture store Levitz and the […]
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