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...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...
Altmire's district stretches west from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Ohio border. In 2006 he wrested the congressional seat from three-term incumbent Melissa Hart with just 52% of the vote. The district should vote solidly Republican; on the same ballot, former Steelers football star Lynn Swann, the Republican challenger to Governor Ed Rendell, won by more than 20 percentage points. But the time was right for Altmire, a pro-gun fiscal conservative whose sandy hair, hazel eyes and freckles make him look far younger than his 39 years...