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...JetBlue passengers can be found in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side. The airline, which has 214 flights to 22 cities and carried 9 million passengers last year, is likely to qualify as a major airline this summer when its revenues are projected to top the $1 billion threshold. But Wall Street analysts have begun to wonder if JetBlue can handle its rapid growth and new competition: its stock price is down to $25 from a high of $47 last fall. Denver-based Frontier, which flies mainly new Airbus planes to its 42 destinations, carried more than 5 million passengers...
PROSTATE: About 75% of men in the U.S. over 50 have been screened for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, but the threshold level that doctors use to biopsy suspicious growths misses up to 82% of cancers. Harvard researchers reported that lowering the PSA level at which doctors recommend biopsies could double the rate at which they detect cancers...
...seems that blood levels of lead previously thought to be safe can actually cause intellectual impairment. Not only that, but quite a bit of damage seems to occur at low levels of exposure. A five-year study found that kids with a blood-lead level at the acceptable threshold of 10 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dl) scored seven points lower on an IQ test than kids with a level of only 1 mcg/dl. The guidelines for safe lead levels have been revised repeatedly over the years, from 60 mcg/dl before 1970 to 25 mcg/dl in 1985 to 10 mcg/dl. They...
...indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj, won 82 seats in parliamentary elections - more than any other political party. The vote - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's party was thrown out of power three years ago - also saw the ex-strongman's own Socialist Party of Serbia just meet the threshold to return to parliament. Seselj's party advocates returning Serbian troops to Kosovo, downgrading ties with the U.S. and Europe, and suing NATO for reparations for the U.S.-led bombing of Belgrade in 1999. The Radicals failed to win the majority required to form a government, but got enough seats...
...forcing 22 turnovers—a dubious threshold Harvard has reached in two consecutive games—BU applied intense pressure on the ball carrier from half-court onward at a minimum and on occasion prevented the Crimson from even attempting to run the offensive sets it would have preferred...