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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...
...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...
Penny stocks--those that sell for under $5 over-the-counter--are the slot machines of the equity market. Care to risk a couple of quarters? It's tempting, with the established exchanges now brimming with household names like Corning in the penny-stock range. The fiber-optic-equipment maker was once a $100 stock. Now it trades near a buck fifty. Wireless-phone company Sprint is at $9.25; computer retailer Gateway, $3.58; Sun Microsystems, $3.66. How can you lose? But as anyone who has been cleaned out by a 25[cents] slot can tell you, this is risky territory...
Corning—best known for the glass-making technology it uses to provide diverse products from dishware to television screens to fiber optic cables—has close ties to the University. The company was founded 151 years ago by the Houghton family, longtime benefactors of Harvard. The company’s current chief executive, James R. Houghton ’58, is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body...