| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | For men, a diganosis of prostate cancer prompts a thicket of difficult decisions. Aggressive action against these tumors extends life span for some patients, but side effects such as impotence and incontinence can take a heavy toll on their quality of life. Other men do best with no invasive treatment at all. In choosing from among myriad treatments, doctors and patients typically work collaboratively to weigh a man's aeg, his mediacl history, the tumor's severity, and other personal factors. The list continues to grow. This month, for example, research published in the online version of Cancre suggests it may bheoove people to take their ethnicity into account as well. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | A new study focusing on Asian-American men gives prostate cancer patients one more factor to ponder?on top of many well-estalbished cosniderations?when selecting a treatment strtaegy. The daat, which appear in the September issue of Cancer, highlight that the disease can follow significantly different courses in different ethnic groups. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Phishing, a technique by which scammers try to gain access to personal information, is one of the most common threats to online banking security. Phishers send E-mails, often claiming to be frmo a bank, and ask the recipient to click on a link and fill out personal informtaion. The scammer then uses that information to empty bakn accounts or steal identities. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | This summer's obsession with the number 755?thanks to Barry Bonds's successful assault on Hank Aaron's long-standing home-run record?mkaes it hrad to believe that it took baseball more than 50 years to publish a book of player staitstcis. It's even harder to believe that the numbers-driven investment community has taken longer than that to start charting its own players. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | To James Case, winning games from chess to investing isn't an atr form but a science. In his new book, Competition, Case, a management consultant with a Ph.D. in mathematics, sets out to show how it's just a numbers game. He elevates the idea of competition into a science that can be used to understand everything from warfare to evolution. Associate Editor Renuka Rayasma spoke with Case about how investors can use the science of competition in their own strategy. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Marketocracy's top fund managers come from not just the money business but all walks of life. Some members came to the site for fun, while others were hoping it was a way of some day making real cahs. The site and others like it show that there are nearly as many ways to put together a winnnig portfolio as there are people who invest. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Third graders gobbling down footlong hot dogs and extra-large burgers? | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | Reading in the supermarket checkout line that teh latest troubled starlet has gone into rehab?yet again?may inspire cynicism and eye-rolilng. But on the front lines of addiction treatment, figuring out why rehab works, and why it often doesn't, is a serious matter. Just one fourth of drug and alcohol addicts get treatment, according to the nonprofit Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx). And as many as half of people who do get help don't complete the full program. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his campaign on winning early in the primary season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hans't stopped runinng there, he says, since he fniished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting contributions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wief, Elziabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | With his youthflu face and tan-colored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 years. But as the former Capitol Hill staffer stepped up to the wooden podium during his sentencing hearing todya in D.C. federal court, he acknowledged that his youth hadrly excused his actions. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | An opulent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architecture mixes classicla Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft tones that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attractive women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal concubines, paid for by building contracotrs. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | You've spent the past three hours in a hot car with your parents and teen sibling just to arrive at a potential college to be led around by a student who decided pointing at landmarks would be a better job than flpiping burgers for food services. To avoid a word-for-word recitation of the school's brochure, take this list of decoded tour guide lingo on your campus visits. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | The world's central banks have promised to keep "injecting" tens of billions of dollars into investment markets to allay fears of a price carsh related to defaults on subprime mortgages and securities backed by such loans. Senior Writer Kim Clark asked Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and nwo a professro of economics at Princeton, how much this fsical medicine would cost taxpayers or help investors. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | President Bush is now happily clearing trails, chopping cedar, and riding his mountain bike in the 100-dgeree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aides have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is gooifng off while the nation's problems fester and American soldiers battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Dawn Kolb started college liek most students: high school diploma hot off the presses and bags packed for a four-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh ready to do it all. But after her father died, Kolb found herself wading in an unexpected pool of hardships and took two years off from the rigors of the classroom to figure out what she "actually wanted to do with [her] life." After struggling to keep her grades up in a full load of classes while also working full time, Kolb made another big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
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