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PRIZES VS. PRIVACY Parents who let kids surf online without supervision may want to think again. Though most children and teens know they shouldn't give strangers personal information, a new study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that many young people feel it's O.K. to reveal potentially sensitive family data in exchange for a prize. Nearly 2 of 3 kids were willing to name their favorite stores, and about a third would tell about their parents' driving records, alcohol consumption, political discussions, work attendance and churchgoing habits...
...even if you have heart disease but are otherwise in good shape. Yes, the pills have been linked to heart attacks, some fatal. But a small study on men with severely clogged arteries shows that the drug has no direct detrimental effect on the ticker. The old rule, though, still applies: no Viagra if you're on medication containing nitrates or have recently had a heart attack...
...report on 12,000 adults shows that smoking quadruples the risk of periodontal disease and is responsible for more than half of all cases of severe gum disease. The only bright spot: quitting can bring a smoker's risk down to that of someone who has never lit up--though it may take 10 years...
...This option was created by HMOS to let members see doctors outside the network, but freedom predictably comes with a higher price. An HMO with broad networks like CIGNA's, though, only has a small fraction of POS members actually seeking care outside the network...
Forget it. Mental slips like these are a normal part of mid-life. Even teenagers, capable of reeling off entire CDs of rock lyrics, occasionally blank out--though one might be suspicious of instances involving chores requested by parents or teachers. Unless your forgetfulness is accompanied by deeper failures in reasoning and logic, it's nothing to fret about. After all, if being absentminded were a sign of mental disarray, you'd have to write off Einstein, who bungled simple arithmetic even while working on relativity...