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...designed to look at short-term use during menopause, for instance. But the principal message is this: taking estrogen and progestin for years in the hope of preventing a heart attack or stroke can no longer be considered a valid medical strategy. (For a detailed look at the pros and cons of hormone therapy for various conditions, see the chart on pages...
...developments at WorldCom suggest that accounting games may be more pervasive than we had thought. With Enron, the tricks involved complicated partnerships, off-the-books debt and exotic hedging techniques that made the firm's financial results difficult to assess even for pros. It seemed unlikely that anything so complex could be widespread. But with WorldCom, as House Financial Services Committee chairman Mike Oxley, an Ohio Republican, says, it looks like "good old-fashioned fraud." Oxley's committee subpoenaed Sidgmore, Sullivan, Ebbers and Jack Grubman, telecom analyst for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, to a July 8 hearing...
Barnaby was a strong supporter of the development of professional squash in the 1970s and the formation of the World Professional Squash Association. He was also a pioneer for the certification of squash pros...
...even as amateurs enjoy the more wholesome side of striptease, work has become more explicit in recent years for the pros. Marcy Finnas, 38, a stripper of 17 years who works in the Las Vegas area, says her job used to be more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...
Coach Walsh has clearly thought about the pros and cons of “riding his horse” extensively. There is an argument that Walsh should limit Crockett’s pitch count no matter the circumstances. This point-of-view argues that though Crockett will want to pitch because he’s competitive, a winner, and would let down the team if he turned down a start, his opinion should be irrelevant to Walsh, who should protect his players and give them a chance to succeed on the next level. However, it is Walsh?...