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...risk factor for the disease. With fewer ovulations come fewer mutations of the p53 gene and a substantially reduced risk for developing the cancer that kills 15,000 women in the U.S. each year. But while pregnancies and birth control pills, which lower ovulation histories, appear to provide the surest means of slashing the risk for developing ovarian cancer, such defenses are far from a practical weapon. Without an effective screening test, ovarian cancer looks set to remain a brutally efficient killer...
...softly tap the breaks on the hurtling Republican revolution. If they say "high," say "I'll jump as high as you want." Clinton, wisely, took neither opition. He forged his own path by looking inward and realizing that articulating and trusting in who he was all along was the surest path to success...
...Manhattan in 1903, the illegitimate daughter of William Franklin Boothe, an itinerant salesman and would-be concert violinist. Clare and her older brother David were raised by their mother Anna, who, Morris tells us, supported them by part-time work as a call girl and believed that Clare?s surest way to escape from poverty was by marrying money. She found work with the publisher Cond? Nast, initially at Vogue but more brilliantly at Vanity Fair, where she became managing editor. One of her first contributions to the magazine was a flip little profile of Time?s co-founder Henry...
...costs eat you up," says John Bogle, a low-fee fanatic and chairman of mutual-fund company Vanguard Group, which champions "index funds" as the surest road to long-term investment success. Over long periods, Bogle says, it's inevitable that managed funds will trail the benchmarks by roughly 2 percentage points a year, reflecting their costs. But index funds such as Vanguard's Index 500, which mimics the S&P 500 by owning essentially the same stocks, have low fee structures and allow individuals to easily approximate the market's average return year after year. Last year the Index...
...softly tap the breaks on the hurtling Republican revolution. If they say "high," say "I'll jump as high as you want." Clinton, Wisely, took neither option. He forged his own path by looking inward and realizing that articulating and trusting in who he was all along was the surest path to success...