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Here's where things get tricky. A closer look at the findings shows that women who have had a benign breast ailment, who score high on the so-called Gail model of breast-cancer risks or whose mother or sister had breast cancer are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer when taking estrogen supplements. In addition, all study participants, regardless of their breast-cancer risk, were more likely to have suspicious-looking mammograms that required biopsies to make sure that nothing was wrong...
...giving Shelton and hundreds of other homeless people free permanent numbers, which go to voicemail boxes. The plan may be thwarted, though, by the Federal Communications Commission, which is considering a $1 monthly tax on every U.S. phone number. GrandCentral CEO Craig Walker says the tax would make his model "economically impossible." Ironically, funds raised by the tax would go to the Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes phone service for poor households...
...Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attachment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous In box--to--In box sharing, following the and-they'll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. "It wasn't as though a marketing firm attempted to create the phenomenon," says Michael Girard, one of the programmers who helped create the Dancing Baby...
...fast-growing chain of mall stores owned by Saks, provides the setting and accessories for elaborate makeover parties for girls as young as 4 at a relatively reasonable $21 a head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture divides into ever more finely split...
Terrill added that he happened across a department store window in Shanghai featuring a mannequin advertising green silk pajamas. That model was none other than Chairman...