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Stansky: No, I disagree. I think Jeff invested in the same manner as Peter. Why did Jeff have 40% in technology? It wasn't some sector bet. It was because he found 40% of his fund invested in companies that he really liked. Jeff didn't invest in some technology stocks he didn't like just to get this weighting, just because he thought he had a magic number...
Those findings were extremely sobering, but the new studies suggest they were considerably overstated. The 85% figure was derived by sampling women from families that already had a breast-cancer history. Researchers on two of this week's papers tried to determine whether stacking the statistical deck in this manner had skewed the results. When they looked at a broader population of women, the breast-cancer risk, even if a gene mutation was present, fell to 56%. National Institutes of Health geneticist Jeffrey Streuwig, who led one study, does not pretend this new number is the last word, but neither...
...causes of addiction was a blessing [MEDICINE, May 5]. I'm a recovering alcoholic and an ex-smoker, and it took me a long time to accept addiction as a physical disease, not a character flaw, and to realize it must be dealt with in the same clinical manner as high blood pressure or cancer. I hope that one of your readers who is so afflicted will finally look at himself or herself and say, "I'm a good person. I'm just sick, and I need help." If so, you will have done more than sell a million magazines...
...realizes, the same college students rear their ugly heads. In fact, by the end of the evening when he hears a women screaming incoherently on the bus that returns him to school, he feels somewhat indignant. "What kind of formal is this?" he insists. What about the dignified manner with which adults at formal balls conduct themselves? He is struck by the sharp contrast between formal clothing and decidedly casual behavior...
...dime-store bag of tricks: making a chosen card rise out of a deck or reappear after being torn to pieces. But in magic, style is everything, and Blaine's intense, streetwise persona is nothing like your typical gabby Vegas showman in a cape. His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...