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...Internal Medicine, once again leave out the younger women and suggest that those over 50 get screened biennially. But the recommendations do not instruct women under 50 never to get screened, says Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the task force. The new guidelines were meant to trigger and inform discussion between women in their 40s and their doctors about routine screening. "We thought we were saying that the evidence shows that there is this amount of benefit and this amount of potential harm for women in their 40s," she says. "Which suggests that routine screening is not appropriate...
...shall be the responsibility of the campaign to inform their staffers of this decision and to ensure that the suspension is observed...
...Lawyers and human-rights advocates welcomed the proposed changes, announced Nov. 9, which also state that detainees must be informed of their rights, can't be forced to do labor and can't be forced to pay for their detention costs. If the proposals are instituted, police or judicial officials would have to inform suspects' families within 12 hours of their detention. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
Phone taps, FBI surveillance, confidential informants - it's the stuff of major mafia investigations and Law & Order reruns. But they're also the tactics used by federal authorities against a slew of dark-suited desk jockeys accused in Wall Street's largest insider-trading scandal in decades. Authorities say billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and 19 others illegally used secret information about public companies to inform investments that yielded some $60 million in profits over the past several years. The defendants, who also include traders, lawyers and executives at firms such...
Insider trading hasn't always been a crime. On the contrary, it was once considered logical and efficient to let any competitive advantage inform decision-making in the free market - a position many economic libertarians continue to embrace today. What some consider to be America's first insider-trading scandal took place shortly after the nation's birth; a former Assistant Treasury Secretary named William Duer capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died...