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...knowing that giving up the identities of pseudonymous SFM4M visitors would have been PR poison for a sizable chunk of its customers, declined to lift its curtain of privacy for the prying eyes of concerned officials. So Klausner got San Francisco-based PlanetOut, an online service for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, to help him pepper SFM4M with warning messages about avoiding the disease (condoms, monogamy and penicillin?). Syphilis is easily treated if caught early, but if left alone, it causes chancres and lesions and eventually leads to insanity and death ? all the while increasing vulnerability to other STDs, most notably...
...England and beyond to dry up and turn brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...
...credit, Bristol-Myers Squibb has also taken the lead in philanthropy, with an offer to give $100 million to fight AIDS in five African countries over the next five years. A sizable chunk is earmarked to bring African doctors to the U.S. so they can be trained to carry out research and clinical trials back in Africa. But even that has raised a red flag among activists. "A lot of the companies are using the cheaper labor costs and the lack of ethical codes in developing countries as a way to get the trials done more cheaply and quickly," says...
...takes a particularly skilled radiologist to do a Mammotome on smaller breasts like mine. If I hadn't found such a radiologist, I might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local anesthetic, I lay facedown on an examining table with a hole in it for my left breast. Then my physician, Dr. Joshua Gross of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, a leading expert on Mammotomes, located the calcifications with a digital X ray. Through an incision no bigger than a match...
...remainder for a fourth try on the Iowas. "All this focus on reading and math for the test means they are getting less of the other subjects," he says. As a result, school systems like Chicago's may see short-term test-score gains--in part because a chunk of students are taking similar exams for a second, third or even fourth time--but suffer backsliding results in future years...