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...Another, subtler problem can be the difference between what are known as surrogate outcomes and patient outcomes. A new drug or treatment may reliably lower cholesterol, say, or reduce the size of a tumor - these are surrogate outcomes - and the drug-maker would call that a success. But the ultimate goal of treatment isn't simply to give you lab results you can boast about, it's to make you feel better and live longer; those are the patient outcomes. Sometimes though, good surrogate outcomes don't lead to good patient outcomes. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, raises good cholesterol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Get Misled by Health Statistics | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

While frontcourt play was one difference-maker in the Dartmouth loss, the Crimson will need a strong performance from its guards if it wants to hang with St. John’s. Co-captain Emily Tay—who last week was named to her third consecutive All-Ivy First Team—was all but absent last weekend in Hanover (seven points, four turnovers). Tay’s poise will be equally important as her scoring:she and backcourt mate Brogan Berry, this year’s Ivy Rookie of the Year, will have to keep turnovers low against...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NIT Presents New Opportunity for Glory | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...could create a chain reaction of enormous proportion." Among other effects, it could lead to mass redemptions of insurance policies, which would theoretically destabilize the industry; the withdrawal of $12 billion to $15 billion in U.S. consumer lending in a credit-short universe; and even damage airframe maker Boeing and jet-engine maker GE, since AIG's aircraft-leasing unit buys more jets than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How AIG Became Too Big to Fail | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...reasonable question, and now it becomes even more pointed: Why should Chinese state-owned companies be permitted to go on a buying spree abroad, when a foreign company - indeed, perhaps the world's most famous foreign company - can't even buy a fruit-juice maker in China, one owned and run not by the government but by an old-fashioned entrepreneur who wanted to do the deal? Beijing's explanation aside, there's really no good answer to that question. In a world now beset with more than enough economic problems, including diminished international flows of both goods and money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Says 'Keep Out' to Coca-Cola | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...remote-controlled, or be preprogrammed to go to specific, predetermined locations. During a November Army war-fighting experiment, the SMSS was able to find its way through rugged terrain during both day and nighttime operations. "We provide supervised autonomy," explains Don Nimblett, a business-development manager with SMSS maker Lockheed Martin. "You could [instruct it to go] to a point, and it would find its way to that location on the earth's surface. It is a very mobile vehicle. At one point the soldiers ran it into a ravine, and the vehicle was able to climb back out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Robots: Will Humans Still Be in Control? | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

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