Sightings
Surviving Cancer: US Numbers Are Estimated at Nearly 18 Million by 2022
Abstract
Although there has been considerable progress in reducing cancer incidence in the United States, the number of cancer survivors continues to increase due to the aging and growth of the population and improvements in survival rates. As a re… more »
The New ‘Dallas’: Sex, Scandal and U.S. Energy Policy!
Did the fracking debate dredge up ‘Dallas’ – the redux – or was this soap opera’s resurgence just another convenient mirror in which to reflect how central the nation’s debate over energy has now become in our culture? more »
Three Bedrooms, A Fireplace, Two or More Baths: 2011 Cost, $272, 900
Jim Blandings as played by Cary Grant: "It's a conspiracy, I tell you. The minute you start they put you on the all-American sucker list. You start out to build a home and wind up in the poorhouse. And if it can happen to me, what about the guys who aren't making $15,000 a year?" more »
George Soros On the European Union: A “fantastic object” – unreal but immensely attractive
The authorities didn’t understand the nature of the euro crisis; they thought it is a fiscal problem while it is more of a banking problem and a problem of competitiveness. And they applied the wrong remedy: you cannot reduce the debt burden by shrinking the economy, only by growing your way out of it. more »
