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Job Journal June 5, 2005 Marty Nemko	Quick Fix: Reconsider Your Priorities Imagine you were diagnosed with a life-threatening illness -- even men get breast cancer! Would that make you want to change anything about your worklife? First, make a list.
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Science News September 27, 2008 Nathan Seppa	Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards In Daily Life And The Science Of Epidemiology by Geoffrey Kabat Health scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific rigor in recent decades.
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