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...civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive all the benefits of straight marriage without the name of “marriage”—a bizarre semantic gambit which, though better than no rights for gays and lesbians, would certainly not conform to the correct standard set out by the court. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion—made by conservatives in Massachusetts and the nation as a whole—was that the constitution itself (federal or state) be amended to ban same-sex couples from marrying. There is a kind of brutal logic here?...
Updike didn’t only take on The Crimson, though. One 1953 rhyme he penned for the magazine begins, “Old Advocate, once you were famous and staid, / But Now, both obscene and sub-standard; / For thus you are called by printers appalled, / Who never should bother to read what they’re paid / To print: we say you are slandered...
...study that raised more questions than it answered, researchers have discovered a major problem in the PSA test, the standard blood screen for prostate cancer. The test measures blood levels of a protein released by the prostate. For years doctors assumed that a reading lower than 4 ng/mL of blood meant the patient was cancer free. But a study of 2,950 men published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 15% of those with PSA levels less than 4 actually had cancer, and almost 15% of those men had "high grade" tumors, which can become aggressive. Doctors...
...best buy. As inflation worries have gathered steam over the past year, investors have rushed to buy TIPS, driving up prices and bringing down yields. At current yields, inflation would have to average 2.73% over the next 10 years just to make the 10year TIPS break even with the standard Treasury. Many money managers doubt that inflation, which currently sits at 2.3%, will get that high in the near term. "I would look for a better entry point," says Wan-Chong Kung, who helps manage $10 billion in bond funds at U.S. Bancorp Asset Management. She recommends that tactical investors...
...oversight to keep them honest. "This is a great deal for Halliburton and Bechtel, but it's an absolutely horrendous arrangement for the taxpayer," says Waxman, who calls it "a recipe for waste, fraud and abuse." The bad news has been worrying enough that the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's said last week it would keep a close eye on Halliburton...