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...majority of them are $1 million or more. Such a payout is usually more than adequate, though a catastrophic injury like paralysis can blow through the whole reserve in just a few years. Similarly, surreptitious policy switching--which in John Q. causes the family's coverage to shrink as the lead character's work hours are cut--is not as much of a danger as the movie would suggest. Even barebones policies ought to cover "medically necessary" procedures (a term that can be slippery), and in many cases, coverage doesn't dwindle as hours do, though such workers...
...first thing TIME.comix noticed: Some of these guys looked like their drawings. Burns sports a nearly bald pate and black-rimmed eyeglasses. Chris Ware, with a large Corrigan-esqe head, tries to bashfully shrink into his chair. Kidd, whose sweeping part of dark hair and wire-rim glasses give him the look of a teenage Devo fan, began by asking Art Spiegelman what it means to be a successful cartoonist. "It's a very mixed blessing," Spiegelman said. "I've felt this incredible weight ever since 'Maus' became a crossover hit because it puts all these eyeballs looking over...
...OPTIONS Most treatments are aimed at relieving symptoms or prolonging life a few months or years. Surgery or radiation to remove or at least try to shrink any tumors. Chemotherapy. Herceptin for those cancers that express an excess of the Her2 receptor. Tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor, if they haven't already been used, for those tumors that respond to estrogen. (Clinical trials of both herceptin and aromatase inhibitors in earlier stages of breast cancer are under...
...called aromatase inhibitors, which for postmenopausal women are already in use against late-stage tumors and may prove even more effective when tumors are caught early. Aromatase inhibitors block the action of an enzyme that these women need to produce estrogen. Two new studies suggest that the drugs can shrink tumors before surgery and also perhaps prevent breast cancer from recurring. More than 20,000 women are enrolled in clinical trials designed to show just how effective the aromatase inhibitors are in early cancer and how best to use them...
...credit bureau have nearly doubled from the 522,922 received in 1997, and 86,168 identity-theft cases were reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year, making it the top consumer-fraud complaint. Because law enforcement lacks the manpower to investigate all the small-potatoes cases and creditors shrink from costly prosecution, identity theft remains a lucrative, low-risk crime...