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...have to make absolutely positively sure that this recovery evolves into a self-sustaining economic expansion, and that is what this is all about," says Mark Zandi, an economist for Economy.com who has advised both Republicans and Obama. "If we go back into recession, it's going to blow out the budget, and it's going to cost the taxpayers a lot more...
...Left-brain abilities that used to guarantee jobs have become easy to automate, while right-brain abilities are harder to find - "design, seeing the big picture, connecting the dots," Pink says. He cites cognitive skills and self-direction as the types of things companies look for in job candidates. "People have to be able to do stuff that's hard to outsource," he says. "It used to be for blue collar; it's now for white collar...
...notes that the study was not a randomized clinical trial of soy consumption. That is, rather than randomly assigning breast-cancer survivors to consume or not consume various amounts of soy, then following those participants to see whether they developed recurrent tumors, the study looked retrospectively at women's self-determined soy-eating habits. The randomized clinical trial is the gold standard upon which medical practice is determined, and the only kind of trial that gives scientists confidence that other variables are not confounding their results. In the new study, for example, the authors note that the women eating...
...furor. Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations advised women to begin routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40 and to switch from yearly to biennial screenings; it also advised women to eliminate breast self-exams altogether. Doctors, patients, cancer advocacy groups and politicians vehemently opposed the rolled-back recommendations, fearing they were a harbinger of health care rationing or that insurance companies would be tempted to stop covering screening in younger women. That concern was put to rest in December, however, when the Senate...
...Freegan,’ to me, denotes a very radical, vocally critical individual who, similar to some members of the environmental movement, tends to be self-righteous in a way that turns a lot of people off,” she said. “I’ve always been fighting not to come across as a crazy radical. I do shower and shave and wear deodorant and eat meat...