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...think a man who deceived so many friends, associates, charities, and lied to them openly for so long, has a problem being a little bit deceitful in surrendering his books and records?" asks a former Los Angeles-based Treasury Department special agent who for decades specialized in white-collar fraud. "Of course he's hidden money; we're talking $50 or $100 million. It's a pittance to a guy like Madoff. Hiding money is a game for criminal minds, and there is no way Madoff's ever going to provide 100% of the information unless it exonerates...
After listing MySpace's potential benefits (identity exploration, peer interaction, alternative social outlets), the researchers note its drawbacks, namely the tendency for teens to overshare personal information "in a globally public venue." Is that really the main problem here? That teens are practically advertising their vices? That they might damage their reputations? This study seems to imply that the oversharing of risky behavior is the problem, not the behavior itself. Moreover, the study's authors second-guess their own research by noting, and rightly so, that many teens - or anyone who maintains a social-networking account for that matter...
...Apple stock - had reporters across the country scrambling for answers. What condition could cause the "hormone imbalance that has been robbing [him] of the proteins [his] body needs to be healthy" and result in such dramatic weight loss? And in what scenario would that condition entail a "nutritional problem" whose cure is "relatively simple and straightforward...
...their phones began lighting up - Dr. Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco, said he had fielded a dozen calls by midafternoon - medical experts nationwide postulated myriad reasons for Jobs' withered appearance: a thyroid problem, a deficiency of human growth hormone or perhaps the lasting effects of Whipple surgery (which involves removing portions of the stomach, pancreas, bile duct and small intestine, and can inhibit digestion), which is a common treatment for pancreatic cancer. The last theory seems to be the leading one at this point (Jobs had surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor...
...hormonal imbalance would indeed suggest an endocrine problem, like diabetes, says Lustig, but many of the conditions that cause the body to lose vital proteins are not endocrine in nature. If a patient were losing the proteins through urine, diabetes could be an explanation, but so could other conditions, including multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes symptoms ranging from bone pain to weight loss...