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...Though it doesn't change the dismal bottom line, there is a difference between the current slide and the one that eviscerated markets last week. The earlier rout was caused by continuing fears that governments were not sufficiently committed to prevent the world's finance and banking sector from collapsing - worries temporarily allayed by rescue plans announced over the weekend in Washington and Paris, and detailed in trillion-dollar-terms Monday. But the confidence those measures inspired in global markets has given way to more classic concerns among traders of a looming economic downturn - or quite probably recession - undermining...
...Answer to Cancer: Prevention The extraordinary missed opportunity in fighting cancer centers on the lack of primary prevention: avoid, reduce and eliminate exposure to carcinogens [Oct. 6]. Shamefully, the National Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancer, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment. Mortality for certain cancers has decreased slightly in the past few years, but the incidence of cancer has not. With more than 100,000 chemicals and formula combinations on the consumer market and less than 5% being evaluated for cancer-causing potential, now is past the time for identifying chemical and environmental carcinogens. James...
...conclusion: forget science, the people want Coke. Though respondents weren’t squeamish about contraceptive measures, they were far more comfortable with 24 ounces of Coke than five ounces of lubricant (spermicidal properties unspecified). So what if soda can’t really prevent pregnancy? The U.S. needs to keep up with the burgeoning Third World anyway. And even though most respondents would rather that several (million?) of their best buddies be immersed in water, they clearly prefer Coca-Cola’s secret formula to nonoxynol-9. Sorry, big pharma; congrats, big sugar...
Last week, Google launched the latest e-mail innovation sure to have the boys over at Yahoo! shaking their heads in shame: Mail Goggles. According to the Gmail blog, Mail Goggles were designed to help prevent users from sending those all-too-common “what the hell was I thinking?” e-mails that seemed so sensible at the time...
...proposal—which would be decided on by the City Council rather than voters—is very troubling. Bloomberg commands the full power and resources of the city and receives millions of dollars worth of free publicity. The term limits on the office are in place to prevent incumbents like Bloomberg from abusing their position to establish themselves as effective monarchs. Term limits were designed precisely to prevent situations like these, in which a mayor amasses enough political capital to change election law to his benefit. Allowing Bloomberg to tweak the rules in this instance would...