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...cancers are caught in the earliest phase of the disease, Stage 0 or 1 (out of 4). In the U.S., that figure is 50%. In Ukraine, where mammography machines are available, if not plentiful, a shortage of film requires that doctors choose between taking the recommended two-view image of a patient's breasts and taking a one-view image of twice as many women. As for a desperately poor land like Kenya? If you can't travel overseas for treatment, says Mary Onyango, a resident of the country whose disease was diagnosed at age 40, "you just...
...report is expected to address the effect of test preparation on student performance, test biases, and the possible advantages of using subject tests over the SAT. In addition, the Commission will also propose recommendations to college admissions officers and high school counselors on how they should view standardized tests, in light of the tests’ potential weaknesses. These efforts are commendable, because identifying where the SAT falls short will not only increase admissions officers’ awareness of the test’s limitations, but also encourage the development of more reliable and more equitable methods of evaluation...
...geek, and visions of McMansions and manicures would tantalize the “ladies” of “The Bachelor.” 4. Nathan J. Dern ’07: the Beauties may not have appreciated him, but perhaps the the Bachelorettes will have a different view of his Ivy League education and predilection for self-referent Facebook groups. After his thrilling run on Beauty and the Geek, we vote to give this nerd a second shot at true reality TV love. 5. Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62: this guy won’t just...
...Kinnaman, that Christianity was both big and beloved in the U.S. - even among its non-adherents. Back in 1996, a poll taken by Kinnaman's organization, the Barna Group, found that 83% of Americans identified themselves as Christians, and that fewer than 20% of non-Christians held an unfavorable view of Christianity. But, as Kinnaman puts it in his new book (co-authored with Gabe Lyons) UnChristian, "That was then...
Churchgoers of the same age share several of the non-Christians' complaints about Christianity. For instance, 80% of the Christians polled picked "anti-homosexual" as a negative adjective describing Christianity today. And the view of 85% of non-Christians aged 16-29 that present day Christianity is "hypocritical - saying one thing doing another," was, in fact, shared by 52% of Christians of the same age. Fifty percent found their own faith "too involved in politics." Forty-four percent found it "confusing...