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...awkward moment. Sandy Weill, the world's most powerful banker, came face-to-face with Eliot Spitzer, the toughest cop on Wall Street. Both were among the guests at a Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense...
Because most corporations have policies that prohibit gender discrimination, membership of company officers at Augusta could be viewed as a conflict. Such leading lights as Sanford Weill of Citigroup and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway are members. So is Kenneth Chenault of American Express, one of a handful of black members at the Georgia golf club. Sources tell TIME that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently became a member. General Electric is still paying the fees for retired chairman Jack Welch, according to papers filed in Welch's divorce proceedings. None of the golfing chiefs are talking: members are required...
...other neurological conditions. But as the technology has become more sophisticated, researchers have started to employ it to tease out some of the subtle changes associated with mental illness. "We're not yet able to use these scans in a diagnostic way," says Dr. David Silbersweig of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "But we're getting pretty specific about the areas of the brain that are implicated in a number of psychiatric disorders...
...immediate vicinity, doctors have learned they don't need to remove so much of the overlying fatty tissue as they used to. "Taking out too much fat was what led to the concavities and deformities we saw in the past," says Dr. Alexander Swistel, director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center in New York City. The remaining tissue can then be rearranged to fill in the void...
Eventually, women may be able to forgo surgery entirely. Doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the Weill Cornell Center in New York City are experimenting with high-frequency radio waves that can literally cook tumors from the inside. Using ultrasound to guide them, doctors insert a multipronged probe into a tumor. The prongs open up like the spokes of an umbrella and melt malignant cells without burning surrounding breast tissue. So far, the procedure has been performed only on women who were planning to get a mastectomy or lumpectomy anyway...