Word: indirectness
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...when Japanese move to the U.S., or Italians to Australia, their previously low breast-cancer mortality rate rises to match the higher rate of their adopted country within a generation or two, as diet and life-style change. "The results are too consistent to believe that the association is indirect," says Maureen Henderson, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. When it comes to the breast cancer-fat connection, she says flatly, "I'm sure...
...most troubling requirement is that pool reports be submitted to military censors to exclude any of 16 categories of material. These range from "information on effectiveness of enemy camouflage, cover, deception, targeting, direct and indirect fire, intelligence collection or security measures" to the catchall of "sensitive" matters. The concerns are valid, but the definitions are broad and vague and must be applied by military censors unaccustomed to such screening. Although the rules provide for a complex appeal and allow for an ultimate right to publish, the process could delay stories by days. All interviews would have to be scheduled...
...cents per bbl. of crude? By some estimates, Saudi crisis-related expenses in the first five months have totaled $22 billion, far more than the oil windfall. But these calculations include such items as forgiveness of $4.5 billion in Saudi loans to Egypt, a highly indirect crisis cost...
...arguing the above, John Cloud's opinion piece ("Finally, Hope in Southeast Asia," November 17) oversimplifies U.S. policy towards Cambodia in the 1980s. Cloud is, of course, justified to say that our policy overlooked human rights concerns; indirect military support and direct diplomatic support for the genocidal Khmer Rouge is unforgivable...
...normal Jane or Joe with basic auto, homeowner's, life and health insurance, you're probably fine, just as your money is safe in S&Ls -- even failed S&Ls. Jeannette Shulda is very much the exception to the rule. But as with the S&Ls, there are some indirect costs we may have to pay. Routine insurance policies, by and large, are not the cause of what may be looming insurance problems. But their price could go up if the solvent insurers have to pick up the losses of the insolvent ones...