Tony Jones/Cincinnati Enquirer, via Associated PressElwood V. Jensen in 2004. Elwood V. Jensen, a medical researcher whose studies of steroid hormones led to new treatments for breast cancer that have been credited with saving or extending hundreds of thousands of lives, died on Dec. 16 in Cincinnati. He was 92. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Thomas Jensen, said. ...
Elwood V. Jensen, Pioneer in Breast Cancer Treatment, Dies at 92
Label: HealthTony Jones/Cincinnati Enquirer, via Associated PressElwood V. Jensen in 2004. Elwood V. Jensen, a medical researcher whose studies of steroid hormones led to new treatments for breast cancer that have been credited with saving or extending hundreds of thousands of lives, died on Dec. 16 in Cincinnati. He was 92. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Thomas Jensen, said. ...
Senate Leaders Racing to Beat Fiscal Deadline
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — Senate leaders and their aides spent Saturday searching for a formula to extend tax cuts for most Americans that could win bipartisan support in the Senate and final approval in the fractious House by the new year, hoping to prevent large tax increases and budget cuts that could threaten the fragile economy. As part of the last-minute negotiations, the lawmakers were haggling...
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The Saturday Profile: Maria Bashir, Afghan Prosecutor, Faces New Line of Attack Over Her Pursuit of ‘Moral Crimes’
Label: WorldBryan Denton for The New York Times“It is very difficult for a woman to work in Afghanistan, especially if you have an important position.” MARIA BASHIR, the only woman serving as chief prosecutor in any of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, does more than just walk the line between the progressive and the conservative — she has, uncomfortably, come to personify it. Ms. Bashir, 42, is used to personal...
Hitachi’s Revival Isn’t So Good for the City of Hitachi
Label: TechnologyEverett Kennedy Brown/European Pressphoto AgencyA Hitachi-built train, part of a shift to infrastructure projects. Hoang Dinh Nam/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesStudents viewed a model of a nuclear power plant for Vietnam that was jointly designed by Hitachi and General Electric. HITACHI, Japan — The biggest annual loss on record by a Japanese manufacturer jolted executives into action at the...
Shortcuts: Readers’ Comments Over a Year of Shortcuts Columns
Label: BusinessI LOVE going back over the year and looking at readers’ responses to my column. It provides a perspective I lack when I’m focusing on one column at a time and receiving comments piecemeal. Associated PressOperators in 1951 at the United States General Services Administration’s switchboard, which served more than 20,000 government phones. Readers were passionate in expressing irritation...
Dec
28
India Ink: Delhi Gang Rape Patient Has Brain Injury and Is Fighting For Life, Doctors Say
Label: WorldThe medical condition of the 23-year-old woman who was raped by several men and thrown off a moving bus on Dec. 16 is worse than previous reports had indicated, according to the Singapore hospital where she is being treated.Dr. Kevin Loh, chief executive of Mount Elizabeth Hospital, said in a statement Friday:“As at 28 Dec, 11am (Singapore time) the patient continues to remain in an extremely critical...
Latest Netflix Disruption Highlights Challenges of Cloud Computing
Label: TechnologyFor some on Christmas Eve, “White Christmas” was a blackout on Netflix. That’s because problems with Amazon’s cloud computing service, which provides storage and computing power for all kinds of Web sites and services, caused Netflix to go down for much of the day. In updates on a Web site that reports on the status of its online services, Amazon traced the trouble to Elastic Load...
Surgery Returns to NYU Langone Medical Center
Label: LifestyleChang W. Lee/The New York TimesSenator Charles E. Schumer spoke at a news conference Thursday about the reopening of NYU Langone Medical Center. NYU Langone Medical Center opened its doors to surgical patients on Thursday, almost two months after Hurricane Sandy overflowed the banks of the East River and forced the evacuation of hundreds of patients. While the medical center had been treating...
Recipes for Health: Spinach, Sardine and Rice Gratin
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesSpinach, sardine and rice gratin. Sometimes a can of sardines comes in very handy and this dish is a great way to work more high-omega 3 fish into your diet. It is a classic Provençal gratin, traditionally made with fresh sardines but just as good made with the skinless, boneless olive-oil packed sardines I buy at Trader Joe’s. You are getting lots of calcium,...
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