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...FOLLOW THE MONEY Howard Schilit, head of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis in Rockville, Md., suggests looking at the statement of cash flow in a company's annual and quarterly reports. Over time, net income and cash flow from operations "should move in the same direction and at similar rates," he says. Cash flow is hard to finagle, so if net income rises faster than cash flow, that can be a sign of accounting tricks--as it was at Enron...
Mucking about with federal agencies will do nothing to ensure our liberty. Just bring back the Department of War, and turn it loose. The best defense is a solid offense. JACK CRAWFORD Silver Spring, Md...
...suspect for months, she claims, yet the FBI has not made an arrest. Without naming the suspect, she says he has received the anthrax vaccine, has a job that involves devising bioterror scenarios and once worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. That facility works with the Ames strain of anthrax, which was used in the attacks. She also says the suspect recently "had a career setback that challenged his high ambitions and left him angry and depressed...
Twenty years later, Mendelsohn is president of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and his cancer-fighting approach remains controversial. When his backers at ImClone sought FDA approval for Mendelsohn's Erbitux cancer drug, the agency declined to consider it. By giving cancer patients Erbitux and chemotherapy together in clinical trials, the FDA said, ImClone made it difficult to determine how much impact Erbitux...
...muscle becomes so weakened--either by infection, untreated high blood pressure, heart attack or aging--that it no longer pumps blood efficiently. "The heart can't pump enough blood to meet all the body's needs," is how Dr. Joshua Hare at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Md., describes it. The problem usually develops over several years, leading to fatigue, shortness of breath and a buildup of fluid, or congestion, in the body. When the degenerative process is sufficiently advanced, a heart transplant may be called...