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...Part of the difficulty for China's central-bank chief, Zhou Xiaochuan, is that the country lacks reliable statistics on which to base economic projections and policies. "They're driving at night without good headlights," says Stephen Green, Shanghai-based economist with Standard Chartered. Another problem is that monetary and fiscal policies are intimately tied up with politics. For example, Chinese President Hu Jintao's centerpiece program of building a "harmonious society" by raising wages and improving state services such as health care for poorer workers plays well with the masses, but may undermine efforts to contain inflation...
...inflation will join the long list of Chinese global exports? Economists disagree. Yiping Huang, chief Asia Pacific economist for Citibank, notes in a recent research report that, while wages are rising fast in China, labor productivity is increasing even faster, which tends to limit manufacturers' need to raise prices. Standard Chartered economist Gerard Lyons says that China's move into more valuable manufactured goods such as automobiles will in years to come have the same deflationary effects on world markets as the country's push into low-end manufacturing...
...with prostate cancer, surgery may offer a better chance for survival than other standard treatments, such as watchful waiting, radiation or hormone therapy, a new study suggests. The survival benefits of surgery, the study found, may be most profound over the long term and in men who are diagnosed with cancer at a relatively young...
...authors of the current study say theirs is the first to examine long-term survival rates of standard prostate cancer treatments, but warn that the results are not definitive. Because the study was observational - rather than a randomized head-to-head comparison of the treatments - the data could have been biased by other factors, such as personal treatment preferences of patients and doctors and other confounding health problems. "It's a retrospective study. In that era, the patients who were the best candidates for treatment got surgery," says Dr. Patrick Walsh, author of Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving...
...gets his way—families like Moore’s may not have to worry about such a sacrifice in the future.In his 2006 Commencement address–his last as president–Summers expressed his desire for the time “when Harvard sets a standard by eliminating any financial burden for lower and middle class families and when students from these backgrounds are fully represented in every Harvard class.” In order to allow every Harvard student, regardless of background, to “choose a career that, while...