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Although most men with prostate cancer have good outcomes, Stark stressed that the link they found for Trichomoniasis was with particularly advanced forms of prostate cancer, making the finding of potentially high importance for efforts to combat prostate cancer deaths...
...begin allowing those undergraduates elected to lead social programming to have some real authority and input in shaping the year’s social calendar. While failure to enact these suggestions might not incite a revolution in the Yard, reevaluating a position that originally stimulated campus social life might combat the torpor that has recently characterized undergraduate involvement in campus-wide events...
...asked us really to behave differently and that took a while to get used to.” The results come as no surprise to proponents of increased time away from employment, such as John de Graaf, national coordinator and founder of Take Back Your Time, an initiative to combat overwork and over-scheduling. “I am not surprised because it is clear that these kinds of things, periodic breaks, are useful to people’s health and are beneficial to productivity in the long run,” de Graaf said. He also said that...
...issues of the day at a plush resort. The theme of the conference was "Green China," and if there was a single underlying idea, it was that China, having just become the world's largest emitter of CO2 gases, was going to jump wholeheartedly on the global bandwagon to combat climate change. But on the conference's final day, during the main event and keynote address, President Hu Jintao talked about China's commitment to economic reform, to maintaining its extraordinary pace of economic growth, to opening China's market further to foreign investment and products - but only the barest...
...over the rift and has tried to foster good relations with the current Administration. But there have been strains. Merkel was critical of the U.S. government's handling of the economic crisis. In return, some voices in Washington accused Merkel's government of stinting on its stimulus programs to combat the downturn. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...