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...actually want the supposed “services” they will receive from their card companies. A better understanding of the nuances and implications of each respective card policy will create a more financially-literate pool of customers much more aware of the decisions they make and the impact of those decisions. In that sense, while the Fed has at once protected customers nationwide from continued abuse, it has also done much to educate these customers about their financial health and well-being, an essential step in cultivating the kind of citizens upon which this administration relies...
...site has also become an important educational tool for some U.S. university students. Christopher White, assistant professor of Latin American history at Marshall University in West Virginia, has brought students to El Salvador for the past four years, and says the Route of Peace has had a profound impact on them. "The students become immersed in the civil war, which means that they leave informed about the ability of our government to determine whether people will live or die at the hands of our allies in poor countries. They talk to former refugees who fled the scorched-earth campaigns, they...
...Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF), funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, published its recommendations in Annals of Internal Medicine; its decision was based on an analysis of existing trials that looked at the impact of mammography on breast-cancer deaths. The task force further recommended that women between ages 50 and 74 get screened every two years instead of annually, and that doctors no longer urge women to conduct monthly breast self-exams, since the practice does not appear to significantly reduce the risk of death from breast cancer. (See how to prevent illness...
...clear yet how the task force's recommendations will impact the decisions that women and their physicians will make about mammography in coming years, but already doctors are fearing the worst. "We could erode the progress we made in reducing breast-cancer mortality over the past decade or so because now the breast cancers are going to be larger when we find them, and more likely to be at a more advanced stage," says Dr. Therese Bevers, professor of clinical cancer prevention at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She adds, "Even including the risk or harms of screening...
...year that features one of Harvard’s strongest recruiting classes in recent memory, a number of freshmen showed that they could make an impact on the mat from...