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Science is not shy about ambiguity, never more so than when it comes to medical advice. So here's the latest recommendation on prostate-cancer screening: Men should continue to have both a manual prostate exam and a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) every year - bearing in mind that neither test may affect your odds of surviving prostate cancer. (Read "Can a Urine Test Detect Deadly Prostate Cancer...
...deal was widely seen as the first big test of an antitrust law that Beijing enacted last August. In the eyes of foreign investors, that test is now officially a failure. Together, Coke and Huiyuan's combined share of the orange-juice market - itself just a sliver of the overall nonalcoholic-beverage market - would have been around 20%. The segment Huiyuan dominates - undiluted OJ - is for pricier products and is relatively small. Coca-Cola's Minute Maid brand plays in the less expensive, larger segment of the market. (Read a TIME story on Coke...
...Sara Jane Olson has become a symbol of particular kind of politics, a Rorschach test of personal feelings about the 1960s. My sense is her supporters are still very much behind her, while the people who quickly found her guilty haven't changed their minds either." Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law (Minneapolis Star-Tribune...
...against bailing out the banks by more than 2 to 1 in some polls. Worse, the banks themselves are deeply mistrustful of anything government might force on them. The head of Wells Fargo told Bloomberg on Monday that a key part of Geithner's plan, the so-called stress test, was "asinine." (Read "Can Your Bank Pass the Stress Test...
...group's first test will come during June's European elections, which choose the U.K.'s representatives to the European Parliament. After that, the Jury Team competes in the general elections, which will take place some time before May 2010. The Team plans to field 70 candidates for the elections in June and a confident Judge believes the movement will "release the same wave of energy as was unleashed by Barack Obama." It's early yet, but as of Tuesday morning only 10 people had created online profiles, and just 35 had voted by texting in the name of their...