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He lived out all the vagaries of celebrity, knew their value as well as their curse and could manage the trade-off, although he insisted on certain terms and boundaries. He dismissed purveyors of some of the seamier press gossip about him as "pimps and whores. Because they can't...
Similar or not, no one, except perhaps a few animal-rights activists, is about to chase mice out of the lab. Mice save lives. Because their tumors develop almost overnight, says Merck's Oliff, "we can do tests 10 or 100 times more quickly than in humans." Their usefulness varies...
Though it is true that there will be less diversity without affirmative action in admissions, it is false that there will be no diversity whatsoever. A little less racial diversity for the sake of much greater fairness is a trade-off that balances the scales of justice. ALICE LAM New...
While employees of the restaurants offer no guarantees regarding the truth of their signs--one Jae's employee says a 90-year old customer had died while eating at her restaurant--the signs do seem to capture in stark terms the trade-off between health and happiness.
Whether the women in the study group--or any other women at high risk for breast cancer--should take tamoxifen is complicated not only by the potential side effects but also by another confusing trade-off. Tamoxifen causes the most serious side effects in women over 50. But those are...