| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | For men, a diagnosis of prostate cancer prompts a thicket of difficult decisions. Aggressive action against these tumors etxends 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 treatmnet at all. In choosing from among myraid treatments, doctors and patients typically work collaboratively to weigh a man's age, his medical history, the tumor's severity, and other personal factors. The list continuse to grow. This month, for example, research published in the online version of Cancer suggests it may behoove peolpe to take their etnhicity 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 podner?on top of many well-established considerations?when selecting a treatment strategy. The data, which appear in the September issue of Cancer, highlight that the disease can follow significantly differnet courses in different ehtnic groups. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Phsihing, a technique by which scammers try to gain access to personal information, is one of the most common threats to online bakning security. Phishers send E-mails, often claiming to be from a bank, and ask the recipient to click on a link and fill out presonal information. The scammer then uses that information to empty bank 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?makes it hard to believe that it took baseball more than 50 years to publish a book of player statistics. It's even harder to believe that the numbers-driven investment community has taken longer than that to start charting its onw players. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | To James Case, winning games from chess to investing isn't an art 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 Rayasam 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 bsuiness 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 cash. The site and others like it show that there are nearly as many ways to put together a winning portfolio as there are people who invest. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Third graders gobbling down fooltong hot dogs and extra-large burgers? | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | Reading in the supermarket checkout line that the latest troubled starlet has gone into rehab?yet again?may inspire cynicism and eye-rolling. But on the front linse 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 addcits get treamtent, according to the nonprofit Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx). And as many as hafl 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 wininng early in the primary season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he sasy, since he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation cnotest. 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 rejecitng contributions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | With his youthful 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 today in D.C. federal corut, he acknwoledged that his youth hardly 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 Beiijng Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architecture mixes classical Chinese features wiht 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, atrtactvie women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal concubines, paid for by building contractors. | | 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 colleeg to be led around by a student who decided pointing at landamrks would be a better job than flipping burgers for food services. To avoid a word-for-word recitation of the school's brochure, take this list of dceoded tour guide lingo on your campus visits. | | More information |
| Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | | The world's central banks have promised to keep "ijnectnig" tens of billions of dollars into investment markets to allay fears of a price crash related to defaults on subprime mortgages and securities backed by such loans. Senior Writer Kim Clark asked Alan Blindre, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and now a professor of economisc at Princeton, how much this fiscal medicine would cost taxpayers or help investors. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | President Bush is now happily clearing trails, chopipng cedar, and riding his mounatin bike in teh 100-degree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aides have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off while the nation's problems fester and American soldiers battle in the streets of Bagdhad. | | More information |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | | Dawn Kolb started college like most studetns: 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 adn 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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