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...Washington Prostate-Screening Rethink For men ages 75 and older, the potential harm from being tested and treated for prostate cancer far outweighs the benefit, according to new recommendations from a U.S. government body that sets standards for preventive medicine. The panel concluded that, for elderly patients, treatment is often debilitating and reduces quality of life, while the disease itself might have minimal impact during a patient's lifetime if left alone. It also found that a test widely used to screen for the disease may not be wholly beneficial for younger men either...
...Ping-Pong balls in its dorms--even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We don't want our students participating in activities that could do excessive harm to themselves or others," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at Tufts...
...rarely make personal attacks on the President. He's an amiable fellow. But he's done tremendous harm. There isn't any subject that you can name that hasn't been severely damaged by the policies of the Bush Administration...
...Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We're pleased that Tufts has put this in writing," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at the school. "Although we understand that 21 is the legal drinking age, we don't want our students participating in activities that could do excessive harm to themselves or others...
...story, the TV show and the novels are all monologues, thus suitable for reading. And all take place in what the woman's voice in Eh Joe describes as "that penny farthing hell you call your mind." Some of Beckett's characters may never understand the harm they've caused or allowed, until "the agenbite of inwit" - a medieval phrase, often used by Beckett's mentor, James Joyce, to refer to the remorse of conscience - forces them into self-knowledge, into an act of contrition. In Eh Joe Neeson's face hardly moves a muscle; the play's director says...