SOURCE: New York Times
Normal flu seasons have accustomed Americans to an “old people first” ethic, The New York Times reports. But swine flu has reversed that. It’s pregnant women and children first, and in the rush for the lifeboats, elbows are beginning to fly. See Read the full story

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Cognitive Daily is a psychology website that reports on peer-reviewed research in the field of cognition. It’s the work of Davidson residents Greta Munger, a psychology professor at Davidson College, and husband Dave Munger, editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SeedMagazine.com.

Are women more social than men? Common sense and many research studies say so. But is that really the whole story? Cognitive Daily last week looked at additional research suggesting that men have larger social networks than women do, and that male-male friendships last longer than female-female ones. Read the Nov. 17 item: “Men often treat their friends better than women do.”

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If you have 4 hours free over the next 4 months, you can be a part of one of the first studies based at the new North Carolina Research Campus! The UNC-Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis is looking for toddlers to participate in a research study of memory and “good” fats. It will require 4 visits in a 4-month period of time. Nutritional supplements are provided and Read the full story

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Davidson College officials said Monday that an unnamed person on campus is being treated for tuberculosis and others who came in contact with the person are being tested for the disease.

In an announcement on its website, the college said the Mecklenburg County Health Department confirmed that the person has an active case of the infectious lung disease. Read the full story

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