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Burns is quick to say that The War, his elegiac, exhaustive 15-hour documentary on World War II (PBS, debuts Sept. 23), is about that war, not today's. But he and co-director/producer Lynn Novick are not naive. "We're not unmindful that it will engage people with questions about the current situation," Burns says. "That's the reason you do history. You're not going to change what happened on June 6, 1944. But you're going to ask questions that are going to help us on Sept...
...Lynn Shuster, director of the Women's Health Clinic at the Mayo Clinic, agrees that timing is crucial. The women in the WHI study were years out from menopause and probably already had significant hardening and narrowing of the arteries, says Shuster. It comes as no surprise, then, that taking an estrogen pill, which increases blood clots, would increase heart and brain events. "The problem is that the results of the WHI were extrapolated to say that older women shouldn't take estrogen. But the bigger issue probably depends on when a woman starts it, if it is going...
...Lynn Turner, a former SEC chief accountant, considers the SEC one of the great governmental agencies but applauds the "excellent" report for highlighting its numerous flaws. "These investigators really lay out for the public what really happens on Wall Street and how the securities defense bar protects them," says Turner, referring to what he says is rampant insider trading. "This could have been a blockbuster case, it gets at the heart of what is the problem with Wall Street hedge funds." Of particular concern to Turner and others is that Congress continues to "bleed" the SEC of staff and resources...
What books are you reading at the moment? -Lynn K. Gardaz in MacauI love historical accounts and I'm reading about the Battle of Jutland in 1916 between the German High Seas Fleet and the British Frand Fleet. It's the last of the great Armadas facing each other, and it never happened again. I love history. I'm fascinated by World War I, by how the whole map of Europe changed so radically between 1914 and 1918. It's never been the same since, and we're still struggling with those changes...
Crude-oil prices are reaching record highs, though not for reasons of supply and demand or geopolitical risk, says Lynn Westfall of Tesoro Corp. Higher prices reflect the ebb and flow of money in financial markets. As stock and bond markets slide, hedge-fund managers pump money into commodities like oil. [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...