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...main issues with prostate cancer is trying to distinguish aggressive prostate cancer that goes on to metastasize from the slow-growing version of the disease, and what we end up doing as physicians is overtreating our patients because we can't distinguish between them," Chinnaiyan said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Urine Test Detect Deadly Prostate Cancer? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...want him to go alone. At 10:00, it wasn’t that crowded on the hill in front of the Washington Monument—we had enough space to sit down—but all the same, there were a lot of people and not much to distinguish one crowd of bundled-up onlookers from another. So I left our comfortable plot and headed toward the portables. We ended up five feet from the portables, but there was no way we were getting to them. Elevated flower beds, chain-rope fences denoting what-were-usually-walkways...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portable-Toilets: The Inauguration Holy Grail | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...very few questions that can't be answered with a simple Google search. And with Web-capable cell phones, there really isn't any need for KGB or the similar service ChaCha (which is free but more annoying because its messages are riddled with ads). So KGB has to distinguish itself by the accuracy and speed of its answers. To find out if the company's service is of any use, we put it to the test, sending different questions at different times throughout the day to 542542 (or "KGBKGB"). Below are the unedited texts and KGB's responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...this decision is ultimately - and rightly - one for the broadcasters, it is the essence of humanitarian-aid agencies that they never take sides in a conflict. That is the long-standing position of the DEC and organizations such as the British Red Cross," he says. "The British public can distinguish between support for humanitarian aid and perceived partiality in a conflict. All I have asked the BBC and Sky to do is to publicize the means by which people can make donations to those organizations which are in a position to help." It will be of some comfort to Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza Strife Engulfs British Broadcasters | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

Scotland went into mourning mode; ten thousand people attended his funeral and he was later named national poet of Scotland. The Scots refer to him as "The Bard," others as "The Scottish Bard," to distinguish his nickname from Shakespeare's. And of course, there's Burns Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burns Night | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

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