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Giving people what they want, however, is not always a good idea in medicine. A significant number of women with a positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...
...answer depends mostly on the situation in your local TV market. Prices and channel packages vary wildly. Cable companies are in the midst of multibillion-dollar fiber-optic upgrades, which means that some places have better service than others. Meanwhile DISH and DirecTV say that unless they merge, they can't offer local channels--NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox affiliates, for example--to every American...
...software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes, duty-free imports of IT equipment and automatic residency for anyone who invests more than $500,000 in the industry. It is also passing a raft of laws to protect and regulate the sector. And a recently completed undersea fiber-optic cable from Portugal along the west coast of Africa to India and Malaysia via Mauritius will increase the country's bandwidth by a factor of 4,000. Says Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth: "Our physical isolation will no longer hold us back...
...answer depends mostly on the situation in your local TV market. Prices and channel packages vary wildly. Cable companies are in the midst of multibillion-dollar fiber-optic upgrades, which means that some places have better service than others. Meanwhile DISH and DirecTV say that unless they merge, they can't offer local channels - NBC, ABC, CBS, the WB and Fox affiliates, for example - to every American...
...cash revenue" in a conference call with top stock analysts. "I'm happy to say that once again the company has exceeded the consensus estimate of analysts for the first quarter," he said. The analysts promptly urged investors to buy heavily in Global, a worldwide network of fiber-optic cable. The stock briefly spiked, luring more capital from everyone but Global insiders. On May 23, Winnick sold shares worth $123 million...