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...says, "the reality is that I genuinely believed that she had the potential to be the best superintendent in the country. Most people think about their own longevity, about political considerations." He adds, "Very few people genuinely don't care about anything other than the end result for kids. Michelle will compromise with no one when it comes to making sure kids get what they deserve...
Overall, cancer death rates have been dropping since the early 1990s - the most recent data suggest that death rates have decreased for 10 of the 15 most common causes of cancer death in the U.S. - in large part as a result of earlier screening and better treatments. But this year's Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer marks the first concurrent decline in incidence, or the rate of new cancer diagnoses. For both American men and women, the incidence of all cancers combined decreased 0.8% per year from 1999 through 2005. That overall decline was largely...
...news. Indeed, the best indicator of progress is a declining death rate. But while the falling incidence rate suggests successful efforts at prevention, the real reasons behind the trend are not as clear-cut. Decreasing cancer rates may reflect a real reduction in cancer; they may also be a result of more frequent and effective screening, which can catch and cure pre-cancer, or they may reflect less frequent use of screens overall...
...larger goals, say researchers, are earlier detection, better treatments and, most important, prevention. As more young people get vaccinated for hepatitis B, for instance, liver cancer, which is often a result of infection with the virus, may see its rates begin to drop in the coming years. But that depends on whether patients continue to use the screening methods currently available; other studies show that only about half of American adults get regular preventive care - including regular cancer screens like mammograms, PSA tests and colon exams...
...economic expert and chief executive officer of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "By contrast, the $2 trillion to $2.2 trillion used to keep Europe's financial sector from collapsing represents around 17% of E.U. GNP. That, too, was promised by national governments but was the result of more coordinated and better funded reaction to crisis...