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...Sounds like a battle the rest of us are well advised to steer clear of. While the scientists are settling on a bottom line, we'll just keep getting mammograms - and hoping for the best...
Michigan congressman John Dingell, who was forced by security to drop his pants at Washington's Reagan National Airport a week ago, grumbled to the Detroit News that screeners "felt me up and down like a prize steer." He later insisted he didn't "want any special treatment" when Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta called to express his sympathy. Some other victims of newly vigilant airport-security personnel are getting much worse handling. The airlines' own uniformed flight crews are often searched several times in a single day, and the pilots are getting so fed up that they have begun...
...supersize that. Studies have shown that eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids (such as sardines, salmon and herring) not only protects you against heart disease but also cuts your risk of stroke. The more you eat, the greater the protection. And if that isn't enough to steer you to seafood, a 30-year study of 6,000 Swedish twins found that non-fish eaters are two to three times as likely to get prostate cancer. Go fish...
Genomics firms in the U.S. and Europe--those involved in sexy explorations of the genome--once swore they would steer clear of risky drug development and stick to peddling genetic information. But many are now busy recasting themselves as little pharmaceutical firms and buying up smaller companies to fill the holes in their drug-development technology. Meanwhile, big drugmakers such as Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb, under pressure to jump-start their slowing rates of drug discovery, are investing billions of dollars in collaborations with biotech firms to mine the genome for new medicines...
...unwilling to examine its position as to defend it. It shouldn’t require 45 people risking arrest, academic failure and their health to make the University respond to substantive questions in a thoughtful and meaningful manner. As it was, the administration missed an ideal opportunity to steer Harvard to the moral high ground on an important issue, to articulate a commitment to its employees, to make a statement to the rest of the world about the values of this University. Instead, the world received a far different message, couched in a tone of ambivalence that I and others...