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...does he belong to? The NCI admits that screening tests alone cannot determine which tumors are deadly, and researchers won't know until they follow the study's entire sample group to see how all the men fare well beyond the seven- or 10-year point - which is their plan. Perhaps some whose cancer was not a problem at the decade mark will be claimed by the disease five or 10 years later. "We need longer follow-ups to determine if more screening will translate to fewer deaths," says Berg...
...consortium of four foreign companies, led by South Korea's Daewoo, inked an agreement with the junta and China National Petroleum Corp. to extract natural gas from Arakan's offshore Shwe fields and pipe it northeast through Burma to China's Yunnan province. The pipeline, along with a plan for a new deepwater port in Arakan where ships laden with Middle Eastern oil can dock and disgorge their valuable cargo, gives China an alternative to the expensive and sometimes dangerous Strait of Malacca by directly supplying energy to its landlocked west. The Shwe project is Burma's largest ever foreign...
...That kind of change has been good for Marks & Spencer. In 2007 the British food and clothing chain launched an in-house environmental campaign called Plan A - "because there is no Plan B for the planet," explains Mark Barry, the company's sustainable-development manager. Scrapping traditional charitable donations, Marks & Spencer budgeted $215 million for a five-year program that included cutting the company's fuel and electricity use, charging customers for plastic bags and sourcing merchandise from green factories and farms. Barry says Plan A is so far paying for itself because it has lowered the company's energy...
Coordinate spending programs. Instead of playing the my-Keynesian-deficit-spending-plan-is-bigger-than-yours game, leaders should coordinate specific measures in order to get more bang for their bucks. It's counterproductive and potentially anticompetitive for some nations to rescue their auto industries, for example, while others don't. Far better to agree on ground rules governing which industries are entitled to receive state aid and how it should be given...
...early to make definitive judgments about its policies. The worst judgments I've made as a journalist were the result of impatience. In early 1993--a moment not unlike this one--I joined the mob jumping all over the unseemly sausage-making that attended Bill Clinton's economic plan. Firmly fixated on twigs and branches--not even trees!--I missed the forest: Clinton's budget discipline led to the economic boom of the 1990s...