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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, recommending that young women delay getting their first test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pap Tests: Another Revision of Recommendations | 11/21/2009 | See Source »

...massacre at Fort Hood is the chilling reality that the alleged killer was a U.S. citizen who may have taken online inspiration from Middle Eastern jihadists without ever leaving the nation's shores. Even more disturbing: This kind of homegrown, lone-wolf terrorism is not only harder to detect; it is likely to grow - as one of the consequences of the U.S.'s war on terrorism. The pounding of al-Qaeda and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan since 9/11 has driven them onto the defensive, forcing them to spend more time trying to stay one step ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood Highlights a Threat of Homegrown Jihad | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...American Cancer Society announced that the benefits of prostate- and breast-cancer screenings have been overstated, after a study found that such tests often detect nonlethal tumors but fail to catch faster-spreading malignant growths. Screenings for colon and cervical cancers, on the other hand, have led to a marked decline in late-stage cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...muddled investigations; the conflict could hamper the government's ability to effectively protect against terrorism, the report said. In early 2007, President George W. Bush signed a Homeland Security directive known as HSPD-19 that required Executive Branch agencies to develop a unified approach "to aggressively deter, prevent, detect, protect and respond" to terrorists' efforts to use explosives in the U.S. The report concluded that, unless the DOJ addressed the problem, "competition between the components on fundamental issues involving explosives investigations and lead agency authority will likely continue and impede the progress of HSPD-19 implementation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Official: The ATF and FBI Don't Get Along | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...Plenty of scams, though, are more elaborate and harder to detect. During a search of Richard Pierre's house, police seized thousands of envelopes with a fake company's logo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Job-Search Scams on the Rise in the Recession | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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