two cool stories from the Globe today

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Meet Heidelise Als, the woman responsible for changing the way NICUs treat the babies. Thanks to her, hospitals came to understand "it wasn't dangerous to allow the baby to turn onto its side to get comfortable, to cover it in a blanket, to dim the lights, to make the environment calm and quiet. Not only was it not dangerous, her research found, but it was better for the babies, who came off ventilators and feeding tubes faster and did much better behaviorally."
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/07/28/reading_the_body_language_of_infants/


A Delta flight attendant has an unusual way of making her passengers more comfortable.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/28/an_attendants_arts_and_aircraft_movement/