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What's going on? Part of it is the fact that "gold's gyrations are the Dow Jones index of anxiety," as this magazine put it three decades ago amid the last big gold fever. When investors are scared - about inflation, about political turmoil, about financial breakdown - they return to the soft, shiny metal that has for millennia served as a store of value. When things calm down, as they did after the gold price peaked in 1980 at $850, demand for gold subsides and the price declines. (See pictures of modern day gold prospectors...
There was a time when no one in the U.S. would have had anything nice to say about Konstantin Feoktistov except maybe that he wasn't a communist. Feoktistov, who died on Nov. 21 at age 83, was part of that cursed group of Soviet cosmonauts who had a troubling habit of beating the Americans to all the great milestones in space: Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth before John Glenn; Alexei Leonov walked in space before Ed White. And Feoktistov, along with two compatriots, was part of the first group spaceflight, piloting the Voskhod 1 when it rocketed into orbit...
...international team of scientists has discovered more than 17,000 species living in the darkness some three miles beneath the surface of the world's oceans. The findings were inventoried as part of the upcoming global Census of Marine Life. Oceanographers say thousands more species are yet to be discovered...
...trudged around in both designs, which took some getting used to. Stairs were not easy. Neither was picking up my toddler. But both made me sore where I was hoping they would. The $110 EasyTones were cheaper and more normal-looking, but I preferred the $245 MBTs, in part because they have the added benefit of making me stand up straight. So though my posterior is still a work in progress, at least my posture kicks...
...largely because evidence-based medicine often runs counter to our personal understanding of risk. It's intuitively difficult for a woman in her 40s to stop getting annual mammograms when she is fully aware that they could save her life. Feeding this instinct is the relentless effort on the part of doctors and disease advocacy groups to promote preventive-health behaviors. Many feel the push may have done the public a disservice by instilling the belief that screenings are purely beneficial. "We have not rounded out that discussion with the American public about the harms," says Dr. Therese Bevers...