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...patients, who are still trying to figure what that actually means.) Strictly speaking, the results do not apply to men, who tend to get heart disease earlier than women do and for whom a low-fat diet might be particularly beneficial. But this study has set the gold standard for diet studies in the future. Fortunately, there are enough research funds to continue following the WHI participants for another five years. Here?s hoping that is long enough to get more answers that are statistically significant-and potentially life-saving...
Nielsen Media Research is the gold standard in ratings for television programming and the backbone of more than $60 billion in TV advertising. CEO Susan Whiting has a courtside seat to epic change, as the industry tries to fit into the era of iPods, TiVos and instant messaging. She spoke with TIME'S COCO MASTERS about her need to know what you watch, for how long, on what--and, now, what you've bought...
...reminded everybody very publicly last week how differently things work in China. Google launched a Chinese version of itself, Google.cn, that is heavily censored to comply with Communist Party regulations. For a company with the unofficial motto "Don't be evil," a company that has picked up the fallen standard of Internet idealism, that was a bit of a shocker. Did the virtuous Google just sell out its honor...
...news media, by refusing to run these cartoons, are giving in to intellectual and religious terrorism. A separate standard is being applied here out of fear of physical retaliation. Whatever is fair to say about one group must be fair to say about another. The European papers are doing the right thing. They're being courageous. It is in the public's interest to see these cartoons that are causing so much outrage. When you see them, you see the extent of the overreaction. They are not nearly as bad as cartoons that routinely run in the Muslim media against...
...current law, the FBI can demand that libraries release a patron’s borrowing record, as well as library internet and e-mail records, if the information is relevant to an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation. Senators who have attacked these measures want to specify a more stringent standard under which the FBI can demand these records, as well as address what they see as the lack of meaningful judicial review of the provisions. But some students said they were most preoccupied with the broader trend of increasing government access to personal information. “People...