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Emily B. maybe the government task force on mammography was actually a plot by radiologists to get more American
women to insist on mammograms. This whole mess is partly the fault of
the cancer establishment. Think how many times you've heard ''one in
eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime” – a slogan that
always makes me wonder ...
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A stolen cache of e-mails from climate scientists reveals a disturbing pattern of possible manipulation and destruction of data, as well as plans to destroy the careers of warming skeptics. Since 10 years of flat temperatures show the climate models are poor at prediction, this seems like a good time to question the science before we further ...
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Emily B,
I agree with you that it’s really unfortunate that the conclusion that
we don’t need to routinely do mammograms until 50, instead of aparking
a national, rational discussion about the advisability of “screening
and prevention,” has become the harbinger that we’re all going to live
under British health care rationing. The debate over ...
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Emily, Hanna, Jess, Rachael, if Sarah Palin were Sam Palin, would
anyone still be interested in her? Dan Quayle was a good-looking,
young, conservative, politician who, in his roll-out as a
vice-presidential candidate, impressed everyone as being a dope who was
in over his head. After his vice presidency, he blessedly slipped from
public ...
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Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal
today has a bracing piece about the almost surreal disconnection
between what’s increasingly clear about the Ft. Hood killer, Maj. Nidal
Hasan, and what officials and some commentators seem unable to
acknowledge. As she writes: “It was an act of terrorism by a man with a
record of expressing ...
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Hanna,
I am the product of the “simpler” '50s dating culture. My parents were
young, hot for each other, met their families' requirements of looks
(her) and potential earning capacity (him), and married at ages 19 and
20. Their union produced four children, lasted 20 years, and was a
nightmare for all concerned. So I do not share David ...
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Were any of you uncomfortable as I was seeing the photo
of Hillary Clinton in Pakistan wearing a scarf over her hair? I know
given the magnitude of what she has to deal with there, that this a
small, possibly trivial issue. But on the other hand, whenever I see an
American female official (and this has been true of Democrats and
Republicans) ...
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I grew up in a household in which the normal mode of verbal interaction
started at banshee and escalated to supersonic, so I was interested in
the New York Times piece “Shouting is the New Spanking” that KJ wrote about last week.
The article says that yelling at children is becoming as socially
unacceptable as whacking them. I agree that ...
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Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics (read Ruth Marcus’ insightful column about women “firsts”) was not trained as an economist but a political scientist. She joins the ranks of Nobel economic laureates whose backgrounds are in different disciplines. An economics blog post discusses how the field is being upended by ...
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It was reported over the weekend that Obama’s speech at the United Nations describing his dream of a nuclear-free world helped clinch his Nobel Peace prize. Many have observed that while Obama’s words and sentiments are noble, the accomplishments that go along with earning a Nobel are lacking. However, I find his dream itself disturbing ... (Read ...