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Luca Sofri, a Milan-based journalist and author of wittgenstein.it, one of Italy's most popular blogs, says that even though Google and other Web-sharing platforms attempt to strike the right balance between allowing information to flow freely on the Internet and respecting individuals' rights, they still have a responsibility for what's posted on their sites. "As Spider-Man says, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' Allowing freedom of opinion does not mean you can be a platform for people to defame others or violate their privacy," Sofri says...
Whether the findings are sufficient to translate to the clinic, though, is another matter. Some experts are not convinced - yet - that the study results should be part of clinical decisionmaking, pointing out that many factors other than mastectomy may be driving the increase in survival. "Women who undergo a [preventive] mastectomy in the unaffected breast may be different from women who do not," says Dr. George Sledge, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a professor of medicine at Indiana University. "They may be overall healthier in that they see their physician more frequently, and their physicians...
...Abroad, though, is also where UPS faces some of its biggest risk. Increasingly stringent environmental laws and rising costs for Asian labor and raw materials all make this business vulnerable. An even more immediate concern is the possibility of government-imposed tariffs or border restrictions. "Global trade is going to lead this recovery," Davis says. "I get on my bully pulpit against anything that could impede...
Volatile energy prices are another worry. When crude-oil prices rise to $100 a barrel, for instance, UPS and FedEx both recover that increase through a fuel surcharge. "They essentially lose money on the way up but make it back on the way down," Ross says. "Longer term, though, higher prices hurt the consumer, and they will downgrade service...
Rafsanjani spoke at the semi-annual meeting of the Assembly of Experts, which he heads. The group, an elected body comprised of 86 clerics, most of them well into senior citizenship, is tasked with, among other things, overseeing the actions of the Supreme Leader, though it has never used that power. Referring to the post-election turmoil, Rafsanjani took no clear sides but made a rare acknowledgment of wrongdoing by regime forces, stating that "unfortunate incidents occurred that were unprecedented in our country, and these incidents caused disputes and in some instances hostilities, and events took place that no Muslim...