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...trials are under way to determine whether routine PSA tests save lives, but the results will not be in for five or 10 years. Until then, doctors must rely on reports like the study in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal in which researchers take a close look at the drop in the death rate from prostate cancer across North America since the mid-1990s...
While I won't disagree that the corruption in Olympic judging needs to be seriously addressed, I question the decision to give the Canadian figure skaters a gold medal in addition to the one won by the Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. What would have happened if the situation had been reversed and the Russians had challenged the judges? Nothing. The controversial resolution of awarding two gold medals was obviously aimed at pleasing the American press and public, and it reeked of cold war residue. It is rather symptomatic of the nation of plaintiffs that is America. Your...
Competitions are about winning and losing. In defeat, the Canadian skaters made it clear that they did not deserve the gold medal. I give their whining performance a 5.2. COURTNEY R. JOHNSON Washington...
There is a saying: those who cannot lose will never win. Gold medals cannot be covered with mud, no matter how hard somebody tries to dirty them. And silver medals don't turn into gold, no matter what somebody tries. The Canadian pair surely understand that they got their consolation medals just to calm down the crowd. OLGA IVANOVA Novosibirsk, Russia...
...killed there since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in Sept. 2000; in Ramallah. DIED. Spyros Kyprianou, 69, former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony awards, the last for her role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus, top adviser during the Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics...