? One cancer treatment must be performed with a machine that costs $150 million, weighs 500 tons, and costs $50,000 per treatment. Yet is it better than alternatives like surgery? Bloomberg?s Robert Langreth takes a skeptical look at proton beam therapy for prostate cancer: "Proton-beam therapy is like the death star of American medical technology; ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:55

The messages in The Hunger Games of societal chaos, class segreation and inhumane treatment of people and animals due to the narcissistic behaviors of a sick chosen might be explained in the book; but I believe the message to "wake-up," is killed in the film for many young children.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 21:55

The Guardian has a story out this week, claiming to have acquired hacked emails from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. I?m skeptical of the authenticity of these emails, and even if they are real, I have ? and have previously articulated ? quite serious misgivings about journalism that relies on hacking of anybody?s personal correspondence. But ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 21:24

Do you know the difference between a broker and a financial planner? How about the different ways they are paid. Here's a guide.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 17:52

Weak prices can weigh on Exxon's upstream revenues, which contribute a major portion of the company's overall valuation.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 17:52

I have to admit that I really do like this story. Over the weekend there?s been some rather breathless speculation about how a gold bar has been found, one that has been drilled out and filled with tungsten. Given that I?m actually in the metals trade, albeit not bullion or tungsten (I have handled both ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 18:55

TOKYO. Many of us who have followed East Asia over the years identify with Sisyphus, the unfortunate king in Greek mythology who kept rolling a boulder uphill only to have it come crashing down again. ??The East is different and we long-time residents keep saying so ? but when will anyone in the West take ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 11:22

Perhaps it is because I know too much about paper for my own good, thanks to a decade of involvement in various kinds of publishing and a four-year stint at , but the more I explore the emerging world of Big Data, the more I keep going back to the history of paper as a ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 21:54

The boss at one of the nation's biggest health insurers recently dropped a very public bombshell about the future of his industry -- by forecasting its imminent death.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 17:55

Throughout the brutal and agonizingly long recession, only one large metropolitan area escaped largely unscathed: , D.C. The city that wreaked economic disasters under two administration last year grew faster in population than any major region in the country, up a remarkable 2.7 percent. The continued steady growth of the Texas cities, which dominated the ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 14:54