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...modestly over the past decade, there is a growing sense of frustration among cancer experts. Part of the problem is DCIS. Thirty years ago, these miniature tumors, which usually don't spread into the rest of the body, were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because of advances in detection techniques. Yet the treatment of choice is still surgery followed by radiation. "We may be far overtreating our patients," says Dr. Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "We've now got women being...
...industry. Beginning in the late 1980s, hemp products enjoyed a renaissance, at first as novelty items for liberals. Greens love hemp because it's a renewable resource and an effective rotation crop that requires little or no herbicide. Nutritionists and vegetarians found that hemp oil has an unusually beneficial ratio of essential fatty acids ("good" fats...
...opening spectacle. Yes, it's pretty easy to put on a successful show when all everyone really wants is for no bombs to go off. Some $310 million was spent on security, airspace restrictions were in effect, and security forces outnumbered athletes at a 6-to-1 ratio. But even ignoring the low performance bar of just wanting to get out of the stadium alive, it was a solid, giant, silly performance, the kind America mastered long ago. There was some kind of very Olympicesque allegory about overcoming adversity in which evil icicle people chased a small boy with...
...Gogh and Gauguin first met at a gallery in Paris in 1887 and soon after exchanged paintings - two studies of sunflowers by Van Gogh for a scene in Martinique by Gauguin. (Today the ratio is reversed: in financial terms, two Gauguins equal one Van Gogh.) After that first meeting, Van Gogh began to idolize Gauguin, imagining he had found a kindred spirit who could act as his mentor and friend. Even after their Arles collaboration collapsed, leaving Van Gogh maimed emotionally as well as physically, the Dutch artist dreamed of a reunion. But while the two remained in contact, they...
...Enron and puzzled over the lack of transparency in the JEDI setups. Only after repeated questioning did the outside advisers who brought CalPERS the deal - Pacific Corporate Group of LaJolla, Calif. - admit that Enron was offering stock, instead of cash, as a maneuver to improve their debt-to-equity ratio and keep their credit rating up. Connell was offended. "We were going to put cash in, they were going to put in stock. They were playing a game with us," she says with disgust...