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Though last week's news raises big questions for anyone on hormone-replacement therapy, women taking birth-control pills shouldn't panic. True, these pills also contain estrogen and progestin, but most women take them before menopause, when their bodies are making more of their own hormones. So it's quite possible that their bodies are better able to handle the excess. In any case, it's impossible to extrapolate from the WHI study...
Today, Nagasaki offers a respite for travelers exhausted by Tokyo's frenetic chaos. The city is located on Kyushu, Japan's pristine southernmost island where snow-capped volcanoes punctuate patchwork landscapes of vegetable farms. Surrounding waters contain more than 500 small islands. Even the airport is located on an island, albeit one barely larger than the runway...
...sunscreens that contain DEET...
...prevent thyroid cancer following exposure to a nuclear explosion, by saturating the gland with benign iodine, preventing the thyroid from soaking up radioactive iodine, I-131, released by the blast. But that won't help in the case of a dirty bomb, as a homemade explosive is unlikely to contain radioactive iodine. The half-life of the I-131 isotope is only eight days, making it a poor choice for a weapon that counts on radioactivity for its effectiveness. If a terrorist obtained some, most of it would be gone by the time a bomb could be assembled and detonated...
Large indeed. According to a recent survey of 2.6 million job applicants by Colorado-based Avert Inc., which specializes in background checks, 44% of all resumes contain at least some lies. Other surveys by Bliss's group reveal that up to 90% of personnel directors report resume fibs about everything from past salaries to--inexplicably--Social Security numbers. And things aren't any better at the boardroom level. Christian & Timbers, one of the nation's top 10 executive-search firms, found that at least 23% of 7,000 resumes submitted for president, V.P. and board-of-director positions had been...