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...wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard in the oncology ward, a place full of regret. Picture yourself lying in one as your dumbstruck spouse and children hover over the bed. Are you really going to tell them you're glad that you ate the wrong foods, never set foot...
...findings, published online this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help explain why many children diagnosed with ADHD eventually grow out of it, as their brains slowly become more similar to those of their peers. The study will continue to track hundreds of adolescents to see if any of the ADHD kids ever fully catch up. More research is also needed to determine why half the kids with the disorder still have it as adults...
...remains firmly grounded in the Swiss tradition, favoring modesty and consensual change over American-style brashness. Joe Weller, 57, the head of Nestle USA, calls it a "global company with a Germanic personality." And Brabeck nurtures "the Nestle spirit," even co-writing a nine-page brochure that tries to explain it. "Nestle people do not show off" is one definition. Another: "Nestle is skeptical of short-term fads and self-appointed gurus...
Declining faith in the dollar also helps to explain the surge in prices of a host of commodities - a classic hedge against currency instability. This includes the spike in oil, which has been further boosted by soaring demand, political turmoil in the Middle East and rampant speculation by trend-following investors. "Four times in the last 40 years we've had major disruptions in global oil supplies coming from geopolitical events in the Middle East," says Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Citi. "If you were to see one of those scenarios play out, that would be a big additional shock...
...lowbrow end of our journalism. "One of the ways in which we have matured is that we don't give a stuff about what other people think," blustered one such "cultural" columnist, Susan Mitchell, in the Australian, a national daily, last month. "We no longer feel we have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves...