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That's the question that an international group of researchers from the U.S., Sweden and Iceland set out to answer when they launched the largest study ever to examine the specific effect of cancer diagnosis on suicide risk. Researchers analyzed data gathered between 1979 and 2004 on 342,000 men who were recently told they had prostate cancer. Compared to death rates among a similar group of men without cancer, men who received a cancer diagnosis were 90% more likely to commit suicide in the following year. (See how to prevent illness...
...mull over their last four years of high school, discover a cohesive thread in their academic experience, and refine their interests and goals for the future. For many high school seniors, this is the first time in their lives that they have no choice but to ask themselves the question...
...concepts that have regulated war forever, such as deterrence and attribution, are slippery or missing in cyberspace. National boundaries don't exist, making moot the question of sovereignty. Asymmetries abound: defenders must defend everything, all the time, while an attacker can prevail by exploiting a single vulnerability. Tracking down the source of cybersabotage, routed like a skipping stone through a series of innocent servers, can be all but impossible. Are the attackers curious teenagers, criminal gangs, a foreign power - or, more likely, a criminal gang sponsored by a foreign power? Deterrence becomes meaningless when the identity of an attacker...
...Lula has promised to work as hard as possible to ensure his protégé is elected, but the health scare throws a question mark over whether the 64-year-old leader has the stamina to both run the world's ninth biggest economy and stump for Dilma. He was taken into hospital last Wednesday with high blood pressure after spending a grueling day in the harsh sun of Brazil's interior. His doctors said the hypertension was an aberration caused by stress and tiredness, and released him the next morning with a clean bill of health. Still, Lula...
...when she must officially declare her candidacy. She'll need to visit the farthest corners of Brazil and get her face constantly on television and in the newspapers, something she has done diligently over the last year by sticking to Lula like a shadow. But it remains an open question whether she can build a critical mass of voter support without her charismatic mentor alongside...