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...your report on the pros and cons of various prostate-cancer treatments [PERSONAL TIME, YOUR HEALTH, Sept. 23]: As one who has had the surgery and gone through the impotence and incontinence and psychological effects that followed, I would not have had a prostate operation if I had known about the aftereffects. The trouble with prostate surgery is that once it's over, you have no more options. I was 74 years old when a very small portion of my prostate was found to be cancerous. I am now 84, but I do not think my abrupt change of lifestyle...
...things that go beep, check out our weekly gadget review by technology writer Wilson Rothman. From PDAs to cell phones to camcorders, Rothman sums up the pros and cons of cool new techno toys every Thursday at time.com...
There are 22 ETFs pegged to Morgan Stanley single-country indexes. A good one-shot foreign portfolio is iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA). But you could add, say, iShares MSCI South Korea (EWY), getting more exposure to a country in which many pros are overweight. Even in a bad market there are winners, and ETFs make it easy to scour the globe for them...
...they show it. In what is known in surf lingo as snaking, men sometimes cut women off to catch the best waves. "Some guys are nice and give you tips," says Stone, "and others will scream, 'Get out of the way! It's my wave!'" Even pros like Ballard have to put up with snakes. "It is crazy," she says...
...York City in 1999, has reached nearly every state east of the Rockies. Seven people, all in Louisiana, have died so far this year, and health officials believe that an eighth man, who died in Mississippi last week, was infected. Neighbors have practically come to blows over the pros and cons of spraying against mosquitoes...