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Wall Street tumbles, led by financials
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks tumbled more than 2 percent on
Thursday after a report showing yet another drop in U.S. home
sales prompted investors to take profits in financial shares,
which had rallied over the past week.
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Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to
make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the
company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc .
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Wachovia CFO Wurtz to leave
(Reuters)
Reuters - Wachovia Corp , which posted a
record $8.86 billion second-quarter loss Tuesday, said Chief
Financial Officer Thomas Wurtz will resign from the
fourth-largest U.S. bank after a successor is named.
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Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Jobless claims jumped and the pace
of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing
growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real
estate, data released on Thursday showed.
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Morgan Stanley aggressively recruiting brokers
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Morgan Stanley said on Thursday
it is poaching brokers from Merrill Lynch and other
rivals, accelerating the expansion of its global wealth
management business during a period of turbulence on Wall
Street.
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Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker
(AP)
 AP - Two cornerstones of the economy — jobs and housing — sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.
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| Being breast-fed may lower breast cancer risk - 13, May 2008 |
By Joene Hendry
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adult women who were breast-fed as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were not breast-fed, unless they were first-born, study findings suggest.
"As a general group, women who reported they had been breast-fed in infancy had a 17 percent decrease in breast cancer risk," Hazel B. Nichols, who was involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
"However, we did not observe this reduction when we looked specifically among first-born women," said Nichols, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
A woman's age at childbirth helps predict the levels of environmental contaminants in her breast milk, and studies have suggested a possible link between increased breast cancer risk and the accumulation of these contaminants, Nichols and colleagues note in the medical journal Epidemiology.
To analyze whether an adult woman's birth order, mother's age at the time of her birth, and whether or not she was breast-fed alters her risk for breast cancer, the investigators interviewed 2,016 women, aged 20 to 69 years, with breast cancer, and 1,960 women of similar age without breast cancer.
As noted, women breast-fed during infancy generally had reduced breast cancer risk.
However, in analyses restricted to breast-fed women, those with 3 or more older siblings had a lesser risk for breast cancer than first born women, the researchers found. But breast-fed women showed no altered breast cancer risk according to their mothers' age at childbirth.
Among women who were not breast-fed, reduced adult breast cancer risk was linked with their mothers' older age at childbirth, but the investigators identified no association between breast cancer risk and birth order in this group.
(c) 2008 Reuters
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