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Monday, 28--U.S. Judge Robert Bork announces today that he will team up with international songstress Charo in a charity benefit on behalf of the homeless. In an unrelated disclosure, Bork confirmed that he seldom wears any clothing beneath his robes...
...nine months, the country cannot afford to wait for rain. Egypt already imports more than half its food, and future demand will be even greater. Declares High Dam Engineer el Shaffei: "If we have less water, we have to change our ways. We will have to get all the benefit from every drop." After all, he notes, "water is life...
...researchers consider negligible, since radiation doses are far lower today than they once were. Other women simply find the cost -- an average mammogram is $100 -- prohibitive. Most to blame, however, may be doctors themselves: for several years, the medical establishment has been sharply divided over whether younger women will benefit from mammograms. The debate was rekindled earlier this month by a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the study, Dr. David Eddy of Duke University and several colleagues found routine mammograms in women under 50 to be of so little benefit that women...
Members of Congress have many motivations for championing causes that benefit only a few parties. Sometimes they may firmly believe in the worthiness of the proposals, or they may have been convinced by an effective lobbying campaign. Just as often, though, they may be out to please their constituents or those who have made major contributions to their campaigns. Both House and Senate versions of the trade bill are larded with proposals of questionable merit and purpose. A few examples...
...study rekindles a troubling debate about whether women under 50 benefit from regular mammograms to detect breast cancer...