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Should women at high risk for breast cancer be getting MRIs? A new Dutch study of 2,000 women showed that magnetic resonance imaging detected 80% of tumors, while mammograms found only one-third. MRIs cost a lot more, however (roughly $1,000 vs. $100), and they're not perfect. MRIs produced false alarms 10% of the time, which meant three times as many unneeded biopsies. They also missed cancers that mammography caught. Still, the case for MRIs is strong enough for the American Cancer Society to recommend that women at high risk consider having both MRIs and mammograms...
Traditionally, tech IPOs start at low prices, which are then quickly forced up by market demand. But Google is using a complex online Dutch auction system, in which the share price will be determined by the highest bidder. Google's SEC filing warns of a possible "winner's curse," in which the price drops at the start of actual trading. Still, some investors will be winners in any event. Google employees stand to make an average of $2.8 million at the estimated share price. Page and Brin themselves are set to make a one-day profit of $130 million each...
...deposits that local firms had neither the technology nor the money to develop. Kazakhstan turned to Western companies for help, and firms like Chevron and Mobil moved in. When the Kashagan field was discovered in 2000, the government invited BG to form a consortium with Eni, Royal Dutch/ Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Conoco-Phillips and Inpex of Japan to exploit it. That was no easy task. In winter, the shallow waters of this part of the Caspian turn into ice floes that - carried by high winds - can crush conventional offshore rigs. So Agip, the operating arm of Italy's ENI charged...
...Overachievers U.S. authorities charged four former executives of Dutch-based food services group Ahold - two of whom pleaded guilty - with conspiring to inflate the company's earnings by around $800 million between...
...Europe's biggest foundations are also the most recent. They include a $1 billion foundation set up by Klaus Tschira, a co-founder of the German software firm SAP, that funds science competitions and antismoking campaigns, and a $250 million foundation set up in 2000 by Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant. In Germany some newer foundations are following the example of Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann into a media powerhouse after World War II and in 1993 transferred the company's ownership to a foundation that now has about $900 million in assets. In Belgium Luc Tayart...