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...time deposits, beginning April 1. The regulation is a warning that Tokyo cannot back the status quo forever. Still, as bankruptcies and layoffs increase, it's harder to introduce tough reform measures. "They are writing off loans, but the bad loans are growing faster," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington. "That feeds a lack of confidence that brings more nonperforming loans--and that is a death spiral...
...were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because of advances in detection techniques. Yet the treatment of choice is still surgery followed by radiation. "We may be far overtreating our patients," says Dr. Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "We've now got women being diagnosed with tumors that probably never would have been treated if we didn't have mammography. They probably would have lived long, natural, healthy lives never knowing they had breast cancer...
...years. Fourteen of those tumors would have come back regardless of whether any additional therapies had been tried. The remaining six would have been prevented by chemotherapy. "For a 6% improvement, that's a lot of women who have to accept chemotherapy," says Dr. Gralow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. But there is no way to figure out in advance which six tumors actually needed to be treated...
...everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The Vatican itself doesn't cut checks or direct legal strategies to its dioceses around the world. But it is hammering out new procedures for handling future abuse allegations in a "desire to coordinate actions in these delicate matters," says Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, a Vatican official. The Vatican's new involvement...
...Fred Schauer has left big shoes to fill, but I’m excited by the prospect of working with Joe Nye and the entire Kennedy School community,” Walt wrote in an e-mail...