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...ten-year follow-up study of women found to have breast cancer, those who received psychotherapy in groups survived on average nearly twice as long as similar women who did not. "Frankly, I didn't expect any major effect on the course of the disease," says Dr. David Spiegel, who conducted the survey at Stanford University...
...foreign visitors is not likely to resume -- even though, according to Ribeiro, only about 1 in 100 tourists will be the victim of a crime. Last year, after 528 people were murdered in April alone, President Jose Sarney sought to compare Rio's plight favorably with another land's ten-year civil war. "It's not possible that they are killing more people in Rio than in the unfortunate, cruel and unjust civil war in Lebanon," said Sarney. Perhaps. But no one ever claimed Beirut was a Carnival...
Other Republicans, though, are scrambling to get aboard the environmental bandwagon. Florida Governor Bob Martinez, expecting a difficult re-election campaign next fall, last month unveiled a ten-year, $3.2 billion initiative to acquire land for environmental and recreational purposes; he also endorsed a plan to undo the work of the Army Corps of Engineers and restore much of the natural flow of South Florida's Kissimmee River. Maine Governor John McKernan, facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Brennan, a strong environmentalist, startled the audience at his state-of-the-state address last month by , proposing to breach...
When it finally does appear, it may not be American. A group of 13 Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Nippon Electric, has teamed with the government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to launch a ten-year optical-research program. Given the Japanese record in electronics, their interest in optical computers may be the best evidence that Huang and AT&T are on to something...
Because of Tokyo's rising interest rates, the premium that the U.S. offers in comparison with Japanese bonds has narrowed to a ten-year low. Says Robert DiClemente, an analyst at Salomon Brothers: "There is very little incentive for any investor to come to our shores these days." A year ago, Japan's ten- year government securities carried a yield of 4.9%, 4 percentage points lower than in the U.S. Last week those bonds posted a yield of almost 6.6%, less than 2 percentage points below the U.S. yield...