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WASHINGTON: So the Pentagon has finally come clean. The Army secretary and chief of staff stood up Thursday and said their mea culpas ? there has been a problem of sexual harassment in the U.S. Army, they admitted, and "passive leadership" allowed it to persist...
...They typically do not pay a dividend--the payoff is in price appreciation. That makes them more desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income. Of course, the market reacts to many things in the economy, not just tax changes...
...debate gets downright vicious when the subject turns to "chronic Lyme disease," a catch-all term that means different things to different people. Some patient advocates and their medical allies believe the Lyme spirochete tends to persist in the body even after standard antibiotic treatment. This camp generally favors intravenous antibiotic therapy to treat chronic Lyme. On the other hand, some academic researchers and their allies argue that people with chronic Lyme fall into one of two categories: they either have hypersensitive immune systems that have overreacted to an earlier, no longer viable, Lyme infection--in which case antibiotics...
...promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims who complain that their symptoms seem to persist, not the doctors who are called upon to treat those victims, not the scientists who are being asked to solve a medical mystery that no one has been able to define clearly. There are now so many mixed messages about exactly what Lyme is and how it should be treated that...
...those who choose to cram, finding study space in campus libraries is often a challenge. The advent of a 24-hour schedule at Cabot library may alleviate some crowding into prime study hours, but library stake-outs seem a tradition destined to persist...