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...your BlackBerry! Cuddle your cell phone! It's time to make peace with the whoosh of your 24/7 lifestyle, says author Vince Poscente, 46, in his thought-provoking new book, The Age of Speed. Poscente advocates coming to terms with - nay, savoring - the "more-faster-now world." His contrarian message: "Speed leads to a more pleasant, less stressful experience." The author, a business consultant with a master's degree in organizational management, knows a thing or two about velocity. He competed in speed skiing, a demo...
...watchful waiting (72%). The study's data also suggest that younger patients, under 70, and patients with aggressive cancer tumors - those with so-called Gleason scores of 7 or above - had a more significant survival benefit from surgery than other patients. On average, says Dr. Elisabetta Rapiti, a co-author of the study, "at 10 years, patients, all ages considered, who did not have surgery had a doubled risk of death from prostate cancer...
...authors of the current study say theirs is the first to examine long-term survival rates of standard prostate cancer treatments, but warn that the results are not definitive. Because the study was observational - rather than a randomized head-to-head comparison of the treatments - the data could have been biased by other factors, such as personal treatment preferences of patients and doctors and other confounding health problems. "It's a retrospective study. In that era, the patients who were the best candidates for treatment got surgery," says Dr. Patrick Walsh, author of Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving...
When asked about the study, Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan Jr. Professor of Government and author of “Manliness”, said conservatives are discriminated against in academia, pointing to the low percentage of conservative faculty members to support his conclusion...
Gross and co-author Solon Simmons, a professor at George Mason University, analyzed 1,417 full-time professors’ responses through a detailed survey containing over 100 questions about their social and political beliefs. Responses were gathered from 4-year institutions as well as community colleges...