JPMorgan co-COO Bisignano leaves to run First Data

NEW YORK (AP) ? JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Sunday that one of its co-chief operating officers is leaving the company, marking the latest high-profile departure since the bank's massive trading loss last year.

Frank Bisignano will become CEO of payment processor First Data Corp. on Monday. Matt Zames, who was co-chief operating officer with Bisignano, will become the sole COO of JPMorgan Chase effective immediately.

First Data said Bisignano, 53, succeeds Ed Labry, who has been interim CEO and president of Retail and Alliance Services since Jan. 28. Labry will continue as president of Retail and Alliance Services.

Bisignano and Zames were named co-chief operating officers in a management reshuffle in July after JPMorgan Chase revealed a trading loss of about $6 billion. The massive loss became a focus of the risky bets taken at large banks and oversight of traders who make those bets. It also prompted congressional hearings, as well as investigations by international regulators.

Others called for the resignation of CEO Jamie Dimon, who initially called the trade a "tempest in a teapot." Dimon later backtracked and apologized several times for the mischaracterization after the scope of the loss was revealed.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that Bisignano would be the ninth executive in the past year and a half to leave Dimon's operating committee of key decision makers.

Dimon and Bisignano have known each other since the 1980s, according to the Journal, and worked together at Citibank.

Before he was named co-chief operating officer this summer, Zames had taken over as chief investment officer for Ina Drew, who resigned in the days after the big trading loss was revealed.

JPMorgan also said Sunday that Paul Compton will become chief administrative officer. He is currently co-chief administrative officer of the Corporate & Investment Bank and deputy head of operations for JPMorgan Chase.

Louis Rauchenberger, who shares Compton's current role, will become sole chief administrative officer of the Corporate and Investment Bank.

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Bombing suspects' mother draws heavy scrutiny

BOSTON (AP) ? In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.

But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theories about 9/11 being a plot against Muslims.

Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said.

Tsarnaeva insists there is no mystery. She's no terrorist, just someone who found a deeper spirituality. She insists her sons ? Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar, who was wounded and captured ? are innocent.

"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told The Associated Press in Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

Amid the scrutiny, Tsarnaeva and her ex-husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, say they have put off the idea of any trip to the U.S. to reclaim their elder son's body or try to visit Dzhokhar in jail. Tsarnaev told the AP on Sunday he was too ill to travel to the U.S. Tsarnaeva faces a 2012 shoplifting charge in a Boston suburb, though it was unclear whether that was a deterrent.

At a news conference in Dagestan with Anzor last week, Tsarnaeva appeared overwhelmed with grief one moment, defiant the next. "They already are talking about that we are terrorists, I am terrorist," she said. "They already want me, him and all of us to look (like) terrorists."

Tsarnaeva arrived in the U.S. in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass. With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years. The large family squeezed itself into a third-floor apartment.

Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician. Anzor, who had studied law, fixed cars.

By some accounts, the family was tolerant.

Bethany Smith, a New Yorker who befriended Zubeidat's two daughters, said in an interview with Newsday that when she stayed with the family for a month in 2008 while she looked at colleges, she was welcomed even though she was Christian and had tattoos.

"I had nothing but love over there. They accepted me for who I was," Smith told the newspaper. "Their mother, Zubeidat, she considered me to be a part of the family. She called me her third daughter."

Zubeidat said she and Tamerlan began to turn more deeply into their Muslim faith about five years ago after being influenced by a family friend, named "Misha." The man, whose full name she didn't reveal, impressed her with a religious devotion that was far greater than her own, even though he was an ethnic Armenian who converted to Islam.

"I wasn't praying until he prayed in our house, so I just got really ashamed that I am not praying, being a Muslim, being born Muslim. I am not praying. Misha, who converted, was praying," she said.

By then, she had left her job at the day spa and was giving facials in her apartment. One client, Alyssa Kilzer, noticed the change when Tsarnaeva put on a head scarf before leaving the apartment.

"She had never worn a hijab while working at the spa previously, or inside the house, and I was really surprised," Kilzer wrote in a post on her blog. "She started to refuse to see boys that had gone through puberty, as she had consulted a religious figure and he had told her it was sacrilegious. She was often fasting."

Kilzer wrote that Tsarnaeva was a loving and supportive mother, and she felt sympathy for her plight after the April 15 bombings. But she stopped visiting the family's home for spa treatments in late 2011 or early 2012 when, during one session, she "started quoting a conspiracy theory, telling me that she thought 9/11 was purposefully created by the American government to make America hate Muslims."

"It's real," Tsarnaeva said, according to Kilzer. "My son knows all about it. You can read on the Internet."

In the spring of 2010, Zubeidat's eldest son got married in a ceremony at a Boston mosque that no one in the family had previously attended. Tamerlan and his wife, Katherine Russell, a Rhode Island native and convert from Christianity, now have a child who is about 3 years old.

Zubeidat married into a Chechen family but was an outsider. She is an Avar, from one of the dozens of ethnic groups in Dagestan. Her native village is now a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Salafism or Wahabbism.

It is unclear whether religious differences fueled tension in their family. Anzor and Zubeidat divorced in 2011.

About the same time, there was a brief FBI investigation into Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prompted by a tip from Russia's security service.

The vague warning from the Russians was that Tamerlan, an amateur boxer in the U.S., was a follower of radical Islam who had changed drastically since 2010. That led the FBI to interview Tamerlan at the family's home in Cambridge. Officials ultimately placed his name, and his mother's name, on various watch lists, but the inquiry was closed in late spring of 2011.

After the bombings, Russian authorities told U.S. investigators they had secretly recorded a phone conversation in which Zubeidat had vaguely discussed jihad with Tamerlan. The Russians also recorded Zubeidat talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation with reporters.

The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.

Anzor's brother, Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.

While Tamerlan was living in Russia for six months in 2012, Zubeidat, who had remained in the U.S., was arrested at a shopping mall in the suburb of Natick, Mass., and accused of trying to shoplift $1,624 worth of women's clothing from a department store.

She failed to appear in court to answer the charges that fall, and instead left the country.

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Seddon reported from Makhachkala, Russia. Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo contributed to this report from Washington.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mother-bomb-suspects-found-deeper-spirituality-224317582.html

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Will 'The Big Wedding' Win at the Box Office?

From Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton nearly ruining their son's marriage in The Big Wedding to Mark Wahlberg turning to a life of crime in Pain & Gain, here are the movies to check out. Will you be grabbing your popcorn and catching one of them this weekend?

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Officials: Bomb suspect acknowledged role

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings acknowledged his role in the attacks to FBI investigators. But the officials say this occurred before authorities advised him of his constitutional rights, including the right to consult with an attorney and not to incriminate himself.

It was not clear whether the admission by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) would be admissible in a criminal trial, since it came before he was read his Miranda rights. It's also unclear whether prosecutors would need the admission to secure a conviction since physical evidence has already been uncovered in the investigation.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing case.

Tsarnaev's two lead defense lawyers did not immediately return phone and email messages.

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The Hero Eco A2B Metro Electric Bike Is A City Commuter's Dreamcycle

As a man who spends most of his time in his attic, it's nice to hit the open roads, feel a little wind in your hair, and run over crack vials as you motor through downtown Manhattan. That's exactly what I did yesterday as when I tried to ride an Ultra Motors A2B Metro electric bike from Bay Ridge to our offices on Broadway, thereby cementing my love for electric bikes and this electric bike in particular.

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Costs to treat heart failure expected to more than double by 2030

Apr. 24, 2013 ? By 2030, you -- and every U.S. taxpayer -- could be paying $244 a year to care for heart failure patients, according to an American Heart Association policy statement.

The statement, published online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure, predicts:

• The number of people with heart failure could climb 46 percent from 5 million in 2012 to 8 million in 2030.
• Direct and indirect costs to treat heart failure could more than double from $31 billion in 2012 to $70 billion in 2030.

"If we don't improve or reduce the incidence of heart failure by preventing and treating the underlying conditions, there will be a large monetary and health burden on the country," said Paul A. Heidenreich, M.D., M.S., professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Chronic Heart Failure Quality Enhancement Research Initiative at the VA Health Care System in Palo Alto, Calif.

"The costs will be paid for by every adult in this country, not just every adult with heart failure."

The rising incidence is fueled by the aging population and an increase in the number of people with conditions like ischemic heart disease, hypertension and diabetes -- contributors to the development of heart failure. Being older, a smoker, a minority or poor are also risk factors.

"Awareness of risk factors and adequately treating them is the greatest need," Heidenreich said.

Heart failure is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the heart has been weakened from heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and other underlying conditions, and can no longer pump enough oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body.

Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization for Americans over age 65. Patients are often fatigued and have breathing problems, as the heart enlarges and pumps faster to try to meet the body's needs.

"Heart failure is a disease of the elderly," Heidenreich said. "Because our population is aging, it will become more common and the cost to treat heart failure will become a significant burden to the United States over the next 20 years unless something is done to reduce the age-specific incidence."

The statement includes recommendations on lessening the impact of heart failure and managing the rising number of Americans with the condition. These include:

• More effective dissemination and use of guideline-recommended therapy to prevent heart failure and improve survival.
• Improving the coordination of care from hospital to home to achieve better outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations.
• Specialized training for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to meet the future demands of advanced heart failure care.
• Reducing disparities for heart failure prevention and care among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic subgroups to help close the gap in health outcomes.
• Increasing access to palliative and hospice care, for patients with advanced-stage heart failure.

"We have the solutions we need to change the course of heart failure in this country, but we must take steps now to reverse the trend," said American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown. "If we treat patients using existing guidelines, improve care transitions, adequately train our healthcare workforce and reduce disparities in the health outcomes of specific populations, we can lessen the burdens of heart failure."

"For those Americans in the last stages of heart failure, we must also increase access to palliative and hospice care to reduce the suffering of their final years."

The statement doesn't examine the impact of provisions of the Affordable Care Act. If laws allow more people to have access to health care, it could lower the rates of heart failure and ultimately costs as people will have access to preventive care, Heidenreich said.

Also, being an ethnic minority and of a lower socio-economic status were both cited as risk factors for heart failure, so more access to health care may help reduce overall risk.

Co-writers of the statement are: Nancy M. Albert, Ph.D., R.N.; Larry A. Allen, M.D., M.H.S.; David A. Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D.; Javed Butler, M.D., M.P.H.; Gregg C. Fonarow, M.D.: John S. Ikonomidis, M.D., Ph.D.; Olga Khavjou, M.A.; Marvin A. Konstam, M.D.; Thomas M. Maddox, M.D., M.Sc.; Graham Nichol, M.D., M.P.H.; Michael Pham, M.D., M.P.H.; Ileana L. Pi?a, M.D., M.P.H.; and Justin G. Trogdon, Ph.D.

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Study: chicken, ground beef are riskiest meats

WASHINGTON (AP) ? An analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness shows that ground beef and chicken have caused more hospitalizations than other meats.

The report by the Center for Science in Public Interest says chicken nuggets, ham and sausage pose the lowest risk of foodborne illness.

The group used government data on 1,700 outbreaks over 12 years to analyze salmonella, E. coli, listeria and other pathogens that were definitively linked to a certain meat.

To calculate which meats were riskiest, CSPI ranked the foods in which contamination was most likely to cause hospitalizations. Some meats may have had more illnesses but were less likely to cause severe illness.

After ground beef and chicken, CSPI categorized turkey and steak as "high risk" and deli meat, pork, roast beef and beef or pork barbeque as "medium risk."

Salmonella and E. coli, pathogens that contaminate meat and poultry during slaughter and processing, accounted for a third of the illnesses surveyed. Clostridium perfringens, a lesser-known pathogen that usually grows after processing when foods are left at improper temperatures for too long by consumers or food establishments, accounted for another third.

While a large number of chicken illnesses were due to clostridium perfringens, chicken led to many hospitalizations partly because of the high incidence of salmonella in chicken that isn't properly cooked.

Most of the ground beef illnesses were from E. coli, which is found in the intestinal tracts of cattle and can transfer to the carcass if the meat isn't handled properly during slaughter. Ground beef can be riskier than steak and other beef products because pathogens are spread during the grinding process.

According to the report, listeria, salmonella and E. coli required the most hospitalizations.

The group noted that the data is incomplete because so many foodborne illnesses are not reported or tracked. The CDC estimates that as many as 48 million Americans get sick from food poisoning each year.

To reduce foodborne illnesses from meat, CSPI recommends what they call "defensive eating" ? assuming that meat can be unsafe. Safe handling includes not letting meat juices drip onto other food or counters, cleaning cutting boards and plates that have held raw meat, wearing gloves when preparing meat and washing hands often. Cooks should also make sure meat is heated to the proper temperature before eating it.

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What Apple can teach us about gambling on innovation | GreenBiz ...

When Steve Jobs first described his vision of the iPhone, he likely encountered incredulous looks and critical commentary along the lines of, "Sounds great, but no way can we do it and sell it."

Just because the iPhone technology did not exist at the time did not mean that it could not be imagined and ultimately invented. Just because Jobs did not have a case study of technical specifications and sales of such modules in particular markets did not mean that consumers would not like ? or even love -- the iPhone.

Yet, when presented with a new idea, most of us enjoy being critics. Perhaps we think that it makes us appear serious-minded and pragmatic. Perhaps it is a reflex, just as when the doctor hits our knee with the little rubber hammer.

We also love innovation. And so we try to balance these two often competing approaches -- the critic and the supporter of innovation -- in our daily lives.

Unfortunately, when it comes to truly considering and advocating for sustainable business (not just eco-efficiency as John Ehrenfield recently described), most of us tend to veer in the direction of critic, rather than become the voice of the avid supporter of innovation. This dynamic is a problem. At best it is a speed bump, slowing down support for innovation. At worst, it is stalling desperately needed leapfrog thinking about reinventing business enterprises, products, services and even economies so that they are not depleting essential "green infrastructure" on which they rely, but do not (yet) recognize.

Most troubling for me, though, is the daily experience of others within sustainability organizations, who are also working to affect change in the private sector, who assert: "Where are the case examples? If companies in the industries that I work with have not done it, then I just can't sell it."

I have a moment of quiet when the conversation takes this turn. What is going on here? Have we become so focused on being taken seriously by mainstream business (which we are actually trying to influence to transform around sustainability thinking) that saying the audacious (but necessary) is no longer feasible? Companies are used to aspirational goals, as laid out in management cornerstone books such as "Built to Last." Why don't we leverage this common idea that "stretch goals" are good for our thinking and our work?

For me, the demands for case studies are particularly acute, as I work on strategies and approaches for companies to identify, avoid, mitigate and ideally eliminate impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. This focus is so far from current reality that I fully understand why people need to re-gain their grounding in conversations by asking: "Where are your case studies?"

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Online privacy is evolving. Does it matter to you?

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Online privacy rules are changing. The question now is how much you'll care.

America's tech industry is finalizing voluntary disclosure standards on the sensitive information being sucked from your smartphone like your location, surfing habits and contacts. Senate Democrats are pushing for a clearer opt-out button for all online tracking. And Microsoft is offering a new browser that encourages people to block the technology that enables tracking.

Industry officials say they understand some people want greater control. But they are betting that consumers don't really mind trading some basic information about themselves for free access.

"Consumers are very pragmatic people," Lou Mastria, managing director of the Digital Advertising Alliance, said in an interview this week. "They want free content. They understand there's a value exchange. And they're OK with it."

Mobile applications like Google Maps, Angry Birds and GasBuddy have become popular, inexpensive ways to personalize smartphones or tablets and improve their functionality. Often free or just 99 cents to download, apps can turn a phone into a sophisticated roaming office or game console with interactive maps and 24-7 connectivity.

But like all those websites that offer medical advice or parenting tips, there's a hitch: They want information from you like your birthdate or ZIP code. Developers say data collection is necessary for the software to work as promised and to reward the intellectual creativity behind it.

"There's no free lunch," said Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. "It's essentially a quid pro quo. You'll trade a little bit of information for all that free content and great services."

The online privacy debate has stumped Congress and prompted limited input from the Obama administration, mindful of consumers' concerns but reluctant to crush a growing industry in a difficult economy.

Some lawmakers, mostly Democrats but some libertarian Republicans, say consumers should have the option of not being tracked at all. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, planned a hearing Wednesday to press his proposal to subject companies to penalties by the Federal Trade Commission if they violate a consumer's "do not track" request.

Industry is pushing back. The Digital Advertising Alliance points to its web-based icon program that links consumers to an opt-out site of participating advertisers. They say some 20 million people have visited their site and only 1 million of those consumers chose to opt out of all ad tracking.

But privacy advocates, backed by the FTC, say the issue goes well beyond targeted advertising, particularly when it comes to a mobile device. Because a smartphone can divulge a person's location, the FTC warned in a recent report that detailed profiles of a person's movements can be collected over time and in surprising ways, revealing a person's habits and patterns and making them vulnerable to stalking or identity theft.

Some researchers also say they suspect retailers are engaging in "price discrimination" ? the practice of setting a price based on personal data, such as the average home price in their area or a person's proximity to a competitor.

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of Electronic Privacy Information Center, said most consumers aren't even aware of the extent to which their information is being collected and how it's used. And as with any product on the market, companies should be required to take meaningful steps to make sure people don't get hurt, he said.

"You shouldn't be put at risk if a car is correctly designed when you go on the highway," Rotenberg said. "And that's our view of Internet-based services. People shouldn't have to lose their privacy to use Internet-based services."

FTC Commissioner Julie Brill says the biggest concerns are all the unknowns. The FTC has asked nine data brokers to disclose what information they collect on consumers and how they use it. Brill said she worries that companies might determine a person's eligibility for certain products and services based on information collected online, potentially violating credit reporting and fair lending laws, but without authorities knowing it.

"The industry is moving so quickly and changing so much that we need to make sure that the laws are keeping up with it," Brill said in a recent interview.

So far, the only solution to emerge has been voluntary industry standards. The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration has been coordinating among some 80 industry lobbyists, consumer advocates, academics and technology experts to devise the new disclosure standards for mobile apps that would offer consumers a quick, easy-to-read snapshot of what information is collected and whether it's shared with third parties.

While the final agreement isn't expected until later this spring, the privacy disclosures are expected to look less like a legal manifesto and more like a nutrition label. Just as some snacks are labeled as high in fat or sodium, some mobile apps might have to fess up to being bigger data collectors than others.

In the end, Thierer isn't sure consumers will care that they've been labeled by a marketing company as someone who, for example, likes to play "Angry Birds" and lives in Ohio.

"The problem is that a lot of these cases driving the debate are worst-case scenarios ... but in reality they are still hypothetical," Thierer said.

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Lung cancer mortality rates linked to primary care provider density

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Study shows mortality surprisingly not linked to thoracic oncology services

DENVER Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics. The relationships are complicated by the fact that many of these characteristics may also be associated with areas of decreased access to care and local resources and not inherently based on implicit biases. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington wanted to know the effect access to care had on lung cancer mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. In a recent study published in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) researchers found lower mortality was associated with higher primary care provider density.

Researchers examined U.S. county-level data for age-adjusted lung cancer mortality rates from 2003 to 2007. Their primary independent variable was per capita number of thoracic oncologic providers, adjusting for county-level smoking rates, socioeconomic status and other geographic factors. Data were obtained from the 2009 Area Resource File, the National Center for Health Statistics and the County Health Rankings Project. The authors of the study found that primary care density was significantly correlated with lung cancer mortality in the white population.

"One explanation for this discrepancy could be the fact that smaller sample size and bias of incomplete lung cancer mortality data for the black population may have prohibited the analysis from reaching statistical significance, whereas the findings might otherwise have been the same," researchers explain. "Alternatively, these results might be a reflection of the interplay between access to care and use of available resources. Blacks may be less likely to use some healthcare services, even if access and availability are not the primary obstacles."

The researchers conclude that, "independent of race, these findings suggest that interventions aimed at primary care providers may deserve more investigation toward improving access to cancer care." Moreover, "significant efforts should focus on breaking down barriers to care, increasing use of services and educational programs, including smoking cessation. The protective effect of access to primary care providers should be further explored and maximized to its fullest benefit."

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Contact: Kristal Griffith
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720-325-2952
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

Study shows mortality surprisingly not linked to thoracic oncology services

DENVER Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics. The relationships are complicated by the fact that many of these characteristics may also be associated with areas of decreased access to care and local resources and not inherently based on implicit biases. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington wanted to know the effect access to care had on lung cancer mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. In a recent study published in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) researchers found lower mortality was associated with higher primary care provider density.

Researchers examined U.S. county-level data for age-adjusted lung cancer mortality rates from 2003 to 2007. Their primary independent variable was per capita number of thoracic oncologic providers, adjusting for county-level smoking rates, socioeconomic status and other geographic factors. Data were obtained from the 2009 Area Resource File, the National Center for Health Statistics and the County Health Rankings Project. The authors of the study found that primary care density was significantly correlated with lung cancer mortality in the white population.

"One explanation for this discrepancy could be the fact that smaller sample size and bias of incomplete lung cancer mortality data for the black population may have prohibited the analysis from reaching statistical significance, whereas the findings might otherwise have been the same," researchers explain. "Alternatively, these results might be a reflection of the interplay between access to care and use of available resources. Blacks may be less likely to use some healthcare services, even if access and availability are not the primary obstacles."

The researchers conclude that, "independent of race, these findings suggest that interventions aimed at primary care providers may deserve more investigation toward improving access to cancer care." Moreover, "significant efforts should focus on breaking down barriers to care, increasing use of services and educational programs, including smoking cessation. The protective effect of access to primary care providers should be further explored and maximized to its fullest benefit."

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About the IASLC:

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) is the only global organization dedicated to the study of lung cancer. Founded in 1974, the association's membership includes more than 3,500 lung cancer specialists in 80 countries. To learn more about IASLC please visit http://www.iaslc.org.

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Media At Boston Bombing Manhunt Had Ringside Seat, But No View

BOSTON -- The series of shootings, explosions, and ensuing security clampdown and eventual street parties here will always be talked about by those who lived through the tumult on Thursday and Friday.

For two HuffPost reporters, it was a surreal 24 hours spent chasing a big story. Getting the job done meant staying awake for nearly two days, subsisting on water and a brown-bag lunch donated by police, while trying to follow the unfolding events from inside a fenced-in lot.

Around 10 p.m. on Thursday, after reports that an MIT police officer had been shot, HuffPost's Michael McLaughlin arrived at the Cambridge campus to find the police investigation taking shape.

No immediate connection was drawn between the killing of Officer Sean Collier and Monday's fatal explosions at the marathon, but with so many national and foreign journalists in town, the press turned out in droves. As reporters milled around, a frantic report came over the police scanner: "Grenades being used. Long guns. Shots fired."

Police cruisers sped across town, with the press corps close behind. An out-of-town photographer gave one HuffPost reporter a lift, along with another photographer and an editor from another outlet. The driver made a few wrong turns on Cambridge's confusing streets, but compensated by flooring it. Red lights didn't apply, at least not on this night. "If you see anyone who might hit us from a side street, let me know," he said.

On the western side of the Watertown crime scene, Christina Wilkie arrived in time to see officers putting a naked, handcuffed man into a cruiser at around 1:30 a.m. The chilly night air was filled with lights and sirens, and the officers patrolled on high alert. Officers shouted "Get the f*** outta here!" at various intrepid cameramen who tried to cross the yellow crime scene tape.

Through the next hour, the police were joined by thousands more members of law enforcement with sophisticated weapons: S.W.A.T. teams in armored vehicles, helmeted FBI agents and several helicopters joined the uniformed officers.

Drunk people and police officers made for a combustible mix. One young man wearing a backpack got too close to the crime scene and found himself cuffed against a car. Another man careened towards a group of officers -- he ended up on the ground, cuffed and cursing.

Reporters quickly learned that leaving the group was a bad idea. Along an unbarricaded side street, an officer spotted Wilkie. "Put your hands up!" he yelled. "Put your f***ing hands up!" She did. "Now get outta here. Run!" She did.

Police eventually decided it was too dangerous to allow anyone out on the streets. Residents were sent back to their homes, and at around 3:30 a.m., members of the press were herded into a shopping mall parking lot, where they would spend the next 15 hours.

Also stranded on the blacktop were a handful of locals unable to get to their homes inside the sealed-off section of town. They included a few tipsy, bleary-eyed partiers, a father and his daughter with a new puppy, and one unlucky MIT student -- all of whom would subsequently be asked to give dozens of interviews over the next day to their temporary neighbors from the media.

For HuffPost, a white rented Hyundai became Command Central. There was no coming or going, so whatever a person had brought with them was all that they had for the day. Battery power was carefully rationed for phones and laptops, and drained at an alarming speed.

Sustenance was also in short supply. For the first six hours, there was nothing. Around 10 a.m., a few boxes of bottled water were dropped off. Egg salad sandwiches arrived at noon in brown paper bags, and later, Boston Kreme donuts from Dunkin' Donuts, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police.

Every hour or so, word of an upcoming press conference would rally the scores of confined reporters from their parking spots to the corner of the strip mall, where they would pile breathlessly on top of one another, hungry for updates.

Although reporters were positioned right at the edge of the search, getting a good picture of what was going on just beyond police lines was nearly impossible. Between briefings, the only thing to see was the seemingly endless parade of armored vehicles into the security perimeter.

With authorities warning the search would continue indefinitely, HuffPost's reporters abandoned the media camp around 7 p.m. and drove through deserted streets looking for a better place to write the day's news.

But the day was far from over. Within minutes of arriving in Cambridge, the police wires were buzzing with word of shots fired in Watertown, and the sleepless reporters who'd spent the night and day there headed back.

Unlike the previous night, when Watertown's streets teemed with onlookers, few were about outside after Friday's bursts of gunfire. Unable to get within a half-mile of 67 Franklin St., where authorities discovered Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat, reporters peered down the dark surrounding alleys, trying to catch sight of what was going on.

Raucous applause and cheers announced that police had arrested a seriously wounded Tsarnaev. Almost instantly, residents of all ages poured out of their homes onto Mt. Auburn Street, while some rushed to move aside the orange road blockades that had become a symbol of a city under siege. And the siege was over.

Driving home through the city took longer than expected because of road closures, but this time, due to a celebration.

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Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout

An Iraqi woman, the last voter in a polling center in the Karrada neighborhood, polling center casts her ballot just before polls closed in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

An Iraqi woman, the last voter in a polling center in the Karrada neighborhood, polling center casts her ballot just before polls closed in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

An Iraqi man reads a ballot list at a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Polls opened amid tight security in Iraq on Saturday for regional elections in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

An Iraqi woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting at a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Polls opened amid tight security in Iraq on Saturday for regional elections in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) officials George Busztin, Special Deputy Representative of U.N. envoy in Iraq, left, and Masouki Watanak, a political officer, center, leave after observing the voting process at a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi citizens leave after casting their votes at a polling center during the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Polls opened amid tight security in Iraq on Saturday for regional elections in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency. But delayed elections in two provinces wracked by anti-government protests and complaints about missing names on voter rolls overshadowed the vote.

The results will be a key measure of support for the country's vying political coalitions and could boost the victors' chances heading into next year's parliamentary elections. Thousands of candidates from 50 electoral blocs were vying for 378 seats on provincial councils, which hold sway over public works projects and other decisions at the local level.

Officials ratcheted up security to thwart insurgent attempts to disrupt the vote. Nearly all cars were ordered off the roads in major cities, leaving streets eerily empty and giving children a chance to play soccer in the middle of highways.

Scattered violence ? mainly mortar shells and small bombs ? struck near polling places. But they resulted in no fatalities ? a departure from a wave of bloodshed earlier in the week. Six people were reported wounded Saturday.

As in past elections, voters dipped their fingers in purple ink after casting their ballots to prevent repeat voting.

Among them was Oday Mohammed, a businessman who brought his mother, wife and children along with him to vote for a candidate from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law bloc. He said he believes both candidates and voters are growing more experienced with the democratic process following the 2003 ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein.

"Not all politicians are corrupt. There are some good people," he said at a polling center in the mainly Shiite district of Kazimiyah.

The vote comes at a time of rising tensions between Iraq's Sunni Arab minority and the Shiite majority that has dominated politics since the U.S.-led invasion a decade ago.

In a reflection of those sectarian strains, many voters said they were encouraged to participate by religious leaders.

"I don't have any hope that the situation will improve, but I had to take part because our clerics asked us to so we don't lose out like in in the past," said Anwar al-Obaidi, a 60-year old Sunni barber in Baghdad.

Election results were not expected for several days, but turnout in sections of Baghdad, the southern oil hub of Basra and other cities appeared light.

Many Iraqis are frustrated with the lack of progress despite several earlier regional and national elections, which were protected with help from the U.S. Several said they saw no point in casting ballots.

"All the politicians and provincial officials, whether Sunni or Shiite, are nothing but thieves and liars," said Ali Farhan, a 35-year-old taxi driver in eastern Baghdad, in explaining his choice not to vote.

Militants stepped up attacks ahead of the vote. A wave of car bombings and other attacks Monday killed at least 55 people and wounded more than 200. Another bombing at a packed cafe late Thursday that left 32 dead. And at least 14 candidates were assassinated in recent weeks.

Several would-be voters in Baghdad's mainly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah could not find their names on voting rolls at several polling centers, so they went home without casting ballots.

"I'm disappointed. We're missing the chance to make a change," lawyer Raed Najm told The Associated Press after failing to find his name at four separate polling stations.

Jana Hybaskova, the European Union envoy to Iraq, described similar voter registration problems at polling sites in Baghdad's upscale Mansour district, a mixed Sunni-Shiite area.

Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Khaldi from the opposition Iraqiya bloc said he received complaints from voters in Baghdad and in Diyala province about missing names on voting rolls as well.

He also accused Shiite militiamen of burning ballot boxes in Diyala, which is home to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Voting took place at more than 5,300 polling centers for members of provincial councils who will serve in 12 of Iraq's 18 governorates.

Officials last month unexpectedly delayed voting in two largely Sunni provinces, citing security concerns. The provinces, Anbar and Ninevah, have witnessed four months of large anti-government protests, raising questions about the motives behind the delay.

The U.S. Embassy praised Iraqis for going to the polls in what it called a strong rejection of violent extremists. At the same time, it urged authorities in Baghdad to revisit the decision to delay the vote in the two Sunni provinces and to schedule voting there soon.

"Security concerns should not prevent all Iraqi citizens from expressing themselves democratically at the ballot box," the Embassy said in a statement.

Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, which comprises three provinces, will hold its own local elections in September. No vote is scheduled in the ethnically disputed province of Kirkuk, which has not had a chance to elect local officials since 2005 because residents cannot agree on a power-sharing formula there.

As in the 2010 national elections, al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated State of Law coalition is vying against the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc. But Iraqiya is now fragmented with some prominent Sunni figures fielding their own slates of candidates.

State of Law also faces a challenge from Shiite rivals the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. A strong showing by them could undermine support for al-Maliki's bloc heading into next year's parliamentary elections.

Governorate councils choose provincial governors and have the right under Iraq's constitution to call for a referendum to organize themselves into a federal region ? a move that could give them considerable autonomy from the central government in Baghdad. They also have some say over regional security matters and the ability to negotiate local business deals and allocate government funds.

Some 13.8 million voters were eligible to participate in the provinces taking part in Saturday's vote.

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Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Sameer N. Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad, and Nabil al-Jurani in Basra contributed reporting.

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US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents ? papers that plainly identified him as an 8-year-old Jewish boy from Poland.

But the full terror of the war was still a few months off, and Taube got safely through Germany to France, and then by ship to the United States, making a narrow escape from the Holocaust and a passage into a bright American future of Hollywood, football, entrepreneurial success and philanthropy.

Now the 82-year-old Taube (pronounced TOH-bee), who lives in California, is back in Poland, the land of his birth, to celebrate the partial opening of a new Polish Jewish history museum for which he has spent years raising funds.

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its doors to the public for the first time Saturday, a milestone that comes with Taube's help. He runs two philanthropies which together have committed about $16 million for the museum, the largest private donation to the project.

Though the museum, which celebrates the 1,000-year Jewish presence in Poland, does not yet have its permanent exhibition ready, officials were determined to at least have a small opening to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, which was marked Friday in a state ceremony.

From now until sometime next year, when the core exhibition should be finished, the museum will host temporary exhibitions, films, lectures and other cultural events. This weekend, the museum is holding an open house, giving the public the first chance to explore a striking architectural creation that has been talked about for years. It is boxlike and glass on the outside, but inside the visitor enters a soaring foyer that looks like a deep curved canyon. With sand-colored walls, it symbolizes the parting of the Red Sea. A striking reconstruction of a painted wooden synagogue is already in place, though it wasn't on view Saturday.

Taube expressed satisfaction at seeing the museum reach this stage after nearly 20 years of planning, explaining that it is part of his longer-term mission to ensure that Polish Jewish history is not forgotten.

"I am in awe," Taube told The Associated Press in an interview from the museum. "As I go through and walk around all the nooks and crannies of this place and its unbelievable open spaces, these huge expanses of glass and these walls that are like a sculpture, and then seeing the wooden synagogue, it is a very remarkable experience."

Regular visitors were also enchanted, with thousands showing up Saturday to tour it. One, Jagoda Stypulkowska, a 78-year-old Pole who lived just outside the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and whose earliest memories include seeing Jewish children sneak out to find food, welcomed the arrival of the museum. While she finds the architecture is "modern and beautiful," she mainly welcomes the role it will play in educating Poles about Jewish history.

"This was really needed and I am hugely impressed," she said.

Over the decades, Taube has grown concerned that the Holocaust, as important as it was, was crowding out knowledge of the previous centuries of Jewish learning and culture. That Jewish world was for many centuries centered in the Polish lands, where it grew to be the world's largest Jewish community for a time, numbering 3.3 million on the eve of the Holocaust.

"I became very concerned that the Holocaust became more or less the beginning and end of Jewish history," he said. "I felt that being victims was too much a part of Jewish life."

So he began trying to promote historical remembrance of Jewish life in Poland, a cradle of "culture, history, language, art, theater and music fundamental to Western culture."

Among his broader philanthropic mission, Taube made the Warsaw museum a priority. He is president of the Koret Foundation and chairman of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, California-based groups which contributed heavily toward developing the $40 million permanent exhibition.

There are other major donors and fundraisers, including a Polish-born Holocaust survivor, Sigmund Rolat. A Polish tycoon, Jan Kulczyk, who isn't Jewish, gave 20 million Polish zlotys (about $6 million).

The museum is a public-private partnership, something new in Eastern Europe. The land the museum sits on, in the heart of the former Warsaw ghetto, was given by the city of Warsaw, with the building's construction primarily paid for by the national government. The private funds are earmarked for the development of the core exhibition.

Taube's engagement in Poland, which goes back to the fall of communism 23 years ago, is also shaped by happy memories of his early years in his native land. He remembers experiencing very little discrimination and in fact his family flourished thanks to the business acumen of his father, an exporter of ham and bacon.

His father's business activities and a big dose of wisdom saved the immediate family from death in the Holocaust, sparing it the fate that befell other relatives.

Young Taube's parents were on a business trip in New York in 1939 when they became alarmed by the news coming out of Europe. By then Germany had taken the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia and annexed Austria. Reports in the U.S. made the situation seem much more dramatic than how it appeared from Poland, Taube said. So his parents arranged for a family friend to make the journey out with him.

Taube doesn't remember the exact date, but it was certainly only a few months before Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, setting off the war.

The family settled in Los Angeles, where Taube's father went into the fur business and young Taube had a brief Hollywood career playing Polish and German children. He went on to graduate from Stanford, serve in the Air Force, and to rise in business in the semi-conductor industry and real estate. For a time in the 1980s he was also involved in professional football as a co-founder of the United States Football League and president of a San Francisco Bay area football franchise, the Oakland Invaders.

Today, he is primarily focused on his philanthropic work, which has brought him to Poland occasionally as the museum has come to life. He is savoring the role it will play in keeping alive the memory of Polish Jewish life.

"I felt that story had to be told, and it wasn't being told," he said. "This museum tells that story."

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Frugal pope nixes bonus for Vatican employees

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets.

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis, known for his frugal ways, decided Vatican employees won't be getting the bonus that traditionally comes with the election of a new pope.

In the past, the Vatican's 4,500-plus workers ? both religious and lay ? would receive an extra little something upon the death of one pope and another upon the election of his successor: In 2005, the total reportedly came to 1,500 euros (nearly $2,000) apiece.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said that given tough economic times ? the Vatican posted a 15 million-euro deficit in 2011 ? "it didn't seem possible or appropriate to burden the Vatican's budget with a considerable, unforeseen extra expense."

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