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Giving people what they want, however, is not always a good idea in medicine. A significant number of women with a positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...
...answer depends mostly on the situation in your local TV market. Prices and channel packages vary wildly. Cable companies are in the midst of multibillion-dollar fiber-optic upgrades, which means that some places have better service than others. Meanwhile DISH and DirecTV say that unless they merge, they can't offer local channels - NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox affiliates, for example - to every American...
...channels. As someone who has spent the past year hooked up to both DirecTV and AT&T cable, I can testify that shows on satellite are better-looking than the same broadcasts on cable, even on digital channels. (Then again, AT&T has yet to seed my block with fiber optics...
...find themselves reluctant to go back to the work-centered life they knew. They began negotiations last week to take over a custom cabinet--making firm. "We want to create something tangible, a real product you can see and touch," says Brockman. "In telecom, unless you're laying fiber in the ground, you're doing something very few people actually understand. We like the idea of doing something creative now." Of course, adds her husband, "we'll have the best damn connectivity any cabinetmaker has ever had." --With reporting by Melissa August and Perry Bacon/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago, Wendy Malloy Fleming/Tampa...
...results in cash revenue" in a conference call with top stock analysts. "I'm happy to say that once again the company has exceeded the consensus estimate of analysts for the first quarter," he said. The analysts promptly urged investors to buy heavily in Global, a worldwide network of fiber-optic cable. The stock briefly spiked, luring more capital from everyone but Global insiders. On May 23, Winnick sold shares worth $123 million...