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...Internet start-ups draw the best and brightest--or at least the greediest--away from myriad industries, off-line firms ranging from investment banking to media have been forced to increase compensation to keep pace. The latest manifestation of the new wage order is in the legal profession, where promising young attorneys have been abandoning their law firms for Internet start...
...please everyone all the time; the decision, due out by summer, could herald new lawsuits and reignite simmering tensions at clinics nationwide. One thing's for sure: Both the pro-choice and pro-life lobbies will be looking for the Supreme Court to somehow rationalize the myriad state and local laws that at present govern protester conduct outside abortion clinics...
...being equal, most budget-minded consumers would rather hand over $15 for a month's supply of St. John's wort than pony up for a doctor's visit and a prescription for Zoloft. But are all things actually equal? Should the makers of so-called dietary supplements - the myriad capsules, pills and potions found at your local Vitamin Shoppe - be permitted to tout the health benefits of their products without being subject to the FDA review process? And can these supplements be thought of as cures for disease? These are the questions raging around the $6 billion-a-year...
...tests and studies. Now, leafing through the growing pile of papers addressing women's health issues, it looks like no news might have been better. The outlook for female patients is grim on multiple medical fronts: Women are contracting AIDS at higher rates than men, they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers...
...should celebrate. You should celebrate longer and harder than your neighbors who danced and drank while you tested your flashlights. You should celebrate that it's no miracle that the world didn't end because of a few zeroes. That it's no miracle we can still control the myriad intricate systems we have built. That it's no miracle that our global interconnectedness makes us stronger, not weaker. After all, is it a miracle that the sun, which we understand far less than our computer systems, rose yet again...