Costly Cancer Drug Offers Hope, but Also a Dilemma
Avastin, which can cost as much as $100,000 a year, has become one of the most popular cancer drugs, but studies show it prolongs life by only a few months.
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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot
Today?s oil crisis could have been foreseen, but analysts say chances to head it off were ignored, missed or blocked.
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Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration
Businesses are proposing alternatives to laws with harsh punishments for hiring illegal immigrants, reopening a rift in the Republican Party.
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Metrics: Cashing In on Obama and McCain
Nearly half of the $900 million the presidential candidates have spent on their campaigns has been paid to just a few dozen companies.
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Economic View: Untying a Knot in Campaign Finance
The Obama campaign?s approach to rejecting public financing may offer the only realistic possibility of limiting the corrupting influence of money in politics.
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Fundamentally: A Bear Market, Mauling Not Included
While you?re probably not happy with the returns of your portfolio right now, if you have been a conservative, diversified investor, you may well be doing better than the overall stock market.
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Checking In: Trump?s Adventures in the Land of Golf
Donald Trump?s project for a golf resort on the northeast coast of Scotland, near Aberdeen, hangs in the balance as environmentalists say the rugged coastline should be left undisturbed.
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Career Couch: How a Promotion Can Test a Friendship
A good working relationship with one?s boss often takes work. It can be even harder if it is your friend who becomes your boss, and harder still if you coveted that position.
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Novelties: Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled
New technologies are developing that make displays flexible, foldable or even as rollable as papyrus, so that large screens can be unfurled from small containers.
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Unboxed: If You?re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow
Adopting either a fixed or growth attitude toward talent can profoundly affect all aspects of a person?s life, a researcher found.
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Off the Shelf: The Quandary of a Superpower as Others Race to Catch Up
Two politically divergent experts concur in recent books that the U.S. in the 21st century will remain the globe?s leading power despite a plethora of challenges.
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Business: New Bank to Focus on Clients Underserved by Bigger Institutions
The Westchester Bank, opened last month, is focusing on small and medium-size businesses, many of which are getting a cold shoulder from bigger banks.
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Shifting Careers: When Ex-Employees Vent, or Reinvent
People may attract the wrath of a former employer for a variety of reasons, but how easy is it for a company to succeed in a legal challenge against a former employee?
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The Boss: Back to Business
Mr. Ferguson is the chief executive of Corrections Corporation of America, Nashville, an owner and operator of prisons and other facilities.
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For Marketers, Viruses Just Won?t Cooperate
Viral marketing is much harder than negative buzz to generate.
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Suits: A Corporate Detective Is Saying Farewell
Jules B. Kroll and the firm that he created , Kroll Inc., were pioneers in modern corporate security and intelligence. Now, at age 67, Mr. Kroll is retiring from the company.
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DataBank: Oil Climbs as Stocks Fall. Sound Familiar?
In a pattern that has been repeated for weeks, oil prices rose and the stock market fell.
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Letters: Next Time, Improve the Infrastructure
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Letters: The Tort War, Unresolved
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Letters: Reason and the Heart
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Late-Period Limbaugh
Bush is wildly unpopular. McCain is nobody?s idea of a movement guy. Conservatism is cracking up. What?s the king of talk radio to do?
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Questions for Robert Reich: Short-Straw Economics
The former labor secretary talks about why offshore drilling won?t solve high gas prices, the cash benefits of keeping things on the small side and dating Hillary Clinton.
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The Medium: File-Sharing Fetish
Eclectic video-sharing that doesn?t succumb to the porn imperative.
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What Safety Net?
Peter Gosselin reports that setbacks like a serious illness or losing a job are now more likely to mean an economic disaster.
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Ideas & Trends: Sit. Stay. Love.
If you don?t play well with others, is a pet a healthy substitute?
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Fair Game: A Window in a Smoky Market
The market for credit default swaps, one of the hottest and also one of the foggiest, might just get a bit clearer if a new accounting rule goes into effect.
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