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...screened biennially. But the recommendations do not instruct women under 50 never to get screened, says Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the task force. The new guidelines were meant to trigger and inform discussion between women in their 40s and their doctors about routine screening. "We thought we were saying that the evidence shows that there is this amount of benefit and this amount of potential harm for women in their 40s," she says. "Which suggests that routine screening is not appropriate. But the word routine clearly got lost...
...through Currier dining hall’s breakfast hours. Despite my own inability to appreciate the first meal of the day, as the Undergraduate Council president, my past six months have been defined by discussions of hot breakfast. When I ran for the position one year ago, I never thought that over half my time on the council would be spent talking about one meal of the day. Since last May, students have been asking me to fight for the return of their scrambled eggs, and the UC has spent a semester discussing a strategy for bringing the bacon back...
...don’t like it, I really don’t,” Stone said. “I thought we’d win in overtime. We lost one the other night, we tied one; I’m hoping the next...
...Unwilling to execute Craig's plan, the White House had no backup. Though Durbin thought it could win the fight, Obama's political team worried about antagonizing lawmakers at a time when the President was seeking more money for Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a host of economic concerns. "The precincts were reporting that there was going to be stiff opposition" to Craig's Guantánamo plan, says a top official. It became "a question of what is achievable," he adds...
...Belgium for defusing tensions between the country's Flemish and French speakers - a quality that could come in handy with the 27-member E.U. - his low profile appears to have endeared him to his initial sponsors, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The two leaders are thought to have balked at a big name like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as E.U. President, because they feared he could become a strong rival for the spotlight. Van Rompuy, by contrast, might have lightweight political credentials, but he was seen as the least aggressive candidate...