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...lawyers but businesspersons, whom the women described as "greedy" and "self-interested." It's too early to draw broad conclusions from the focus groups, say the researchers, but that negative view of business is in line with the long-standing theory that "women are drawn to jobs with some kind of obvious societal utility," says Carol Hollenshead, director of the Center for the Education of Women at Michigan. "Medicine, law and, increasingly, science and engineering can all be associated with helping people in some way," Hollenshead says. "The business world may need to make a better case...
...care centers and baby-sitting services within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous; it's one of the nicest I have ever seen," says Johnson, who started his new job in March. "This kind of help made a big difference in deciding whether to move...
Until now, neither the effectiveness nor the putative mechanism of homeopathy has ever been subjected to what nonbelievers would call a scientifically valid test. Indeed, the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which has $50 million to spend this year for just this kind of trial, has yet to sponsor even preliminary tests. Now it may be upstaged by a laureate and a skeptic...
FILL 'ER UP Loading up on liquids--any kind, including water, coffee or soda--may help protect the bladder from cancer. Data on 50,000 men show that consuming ten 8-oz. glasses each day can cut the risk of bladder cancer in half. The liquids probably flush away carcinogens and keep urine diluted so toxins make less contact with the bladder wall. Half a gallon a day may sound like a lot to swallow, but it's only about three glasses more than most people already drink...
...afflicts some NATO critics, who seem to think that NATO and Milosevic are equally responsible for the carnage in the Balkans. But at times he seems to be trying to have it both ways. On the CNN show Crossfire, he maintained that NATO's bombing campaign "corresponds with the kind of ethnic-cleansing violence you see in Kosovo." But two days later he told me that he thinks NATO's bombing has served "our moral mission of stopping the ethnic cleansing." He adds, "But it's not stopping the ethnic cleansing. We must be seen to be as willing...