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...American Medical Association. Researchers say the blood test predicted almost three-quarters of the malignancies that developed within four years among thousands of middle-age and elderly men. Just as important, the test had a low rate of false positives, 9 percent. That means that the test will steer most patients away from unnecessary surgery.Many men with benign or slow-growing tumors decline surgery, since it may not lengthen their lives, but it often causes such unpleasant consequences as incontinence and impotence...
...concluded that he is old and ill and didn't profit from alleged cronyism in the department. But Independent Counsel Arlin Adams said today that Pierce, 72, nicknamed "Silent Sam" for keeping a low profile during his government tenure, has admitted he created an environment that permitted aides to steer federal aid illegally to friends and political allies. "I realize that my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events could occur," Pierce wrote in a statement Adams released today. The probe has so far produced 16 convictions and $2 million in fines...
Investigators looking into theSeptember crash of USAir Flight 427are turning their attention to the plane's rudder, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pilots may not have been able to properly steer the plane if contaminated hydraulic fluid had damaged the rudder's control mechanisms, the paper reported...
...Last and this year especially, we're consciously wanting to steer toward being more focused and more issue oriented," he says...
Meanwhile, an increasingly defensive Nethercutt keeps trying to steer the debate back to the waste and corruption of the system at large. "Everything that comes from Washington comes with a price," Nethercutt says. But there was almost a plaintiveness in his voice as he reassured a local group that they need not suffer a pork-free diet: "Don't be fearful that the world will come to an end if Tom Foley is defeated...