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Risky Business Your article "The Mammogram Melee" suggests that it's important to weigh the risks of screening against the benefits, but you never tell us what these risks are [Dec. 7]. Is there evidence that the mammograms may be causing some tumors or damaging tissues? I've been screened fairly regularly for the last 20 years, and now I'm starting to worry that I was doing the wrong thing. Karin Judkins, TURIN, ITALY...
...just happening at work. NSR says non-enforcement is giving defiant smokers the courage to light up in other public areas. Some smokers now routinely puff away in bars or cafés and self-policing owners and managers are often hesitant to tell them to stop out of fear they'll anger paying clients. Worse still, NSR says, are the enclosed terraces proliferating outside cafes and restaurants across France. The temporary glass or plastic structures were initially set up to keep customers warm so they can enjoy an "outside" café experience in chilly weather. But when smokers were...
There’s a longstanding debate among journalists about what kind of honesty reporters owe their sources—about what they are obligated to tell and what they can conceal...
When people find out that you are the top-ranked chess player in the world, do you have to deal with them assuming you are 40,000 times more intelligent than them? Yeah, that can be a little annoying. I try to tell people that I am like them. I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person...
...trial had already prompted close scrutiny from several western governments, including the United States. Diplomats had not been allowed into his trial on Wednesday. On Tuesday U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said, "As far as we can tell, this man's crime was simply signing a piece of paper that aspires to a more open and participatory form of government. That is not a crime." China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday called all criticism of Liu's trial "gross interference in China's internal affairs." (See how Beijing clamped down after the release of Charter...