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...closer look at the youngest post-menopausal population - women between 50 and 59 who are most in need of hormone therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms. Already, they are finding that the way estrogen is delivered can make a difference: the patch form of the hormone combination leads to fewer clots than the pill form, since the liver is not engaged as intensely in processing the estrogen when it comes through the mouth, and does not produce as many clotting factors with the skin-based estrogen. "Hormone therapy is an evolving story, and it's a very intriguing mystery that...
...they believe the rankings have an additional and more nefarious component. Several college presidents have publicly complained that the rankings' emphasis on the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen has led colleges to fight over high-achieving (and often wealthy) students by offering them merit scholarships and thus leaving fewer financial-aid dollars available to low-income students...
...BOOKS No fewer than 15 Diana books will hit the market this year, including a $2,000 coffee-table book about her wedding dress that contains a swatch of the leftover silk...
India has far fewer HIV/AIDS cases than previously thought, if a new and comprehensive national health survey is to be believed. The survey, which was partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and which has not yet been released, suggests that the total number of Indians infected by the virus is far lower than the 5.7 million people estimated in previous studies. The New York Times, which first reported the findings, said that early analysis of the data puts the the total number of people infected at somewhere between 2 and 3 million...
...union representative at the plant back then, and he says it offered good jobs and good benefits, but globalization and other corporate pressures caught up with them. The company shuttered and sold the plant in 1987. Five months later, it reopened under a new owner, with lower wages and fewer benefits. "The starting wage went from $11 an hour to $7.50," says Walters. "The meatpacking industry ought to be ashamed of what they did to towns like ours...