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NY contest canceled Tell that to the runners

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NEW YORK (AP) Their race was called off,merely marathoners were still on the migrate in New York aboard Sunday.

Hundreds of runners wearing marathon shirts and backpacks full of supplies took the ferry to hard-hit Staten Island and ran to stricken neighborhoods to assistance Thousands of others poured into Central Park to put in 26.two miles after the last-minute cancellation of the world's largest marathon as of Superstorm Sandy.

"A lot of folk just wanted to finish what they started," said Lance Svendsen, who organized an choice marathon called Run Anyway. By 8:45 a.m., his group had sent off five waves of runners from the marathon's lawful finish line, which had never additionally been taken down. "It namely astonishing My suspect namely nearly 600 people have left so distant"

Italians stretched en masse resemble the Plaza Hotel. The Germans started from Columbus Circle. Everyone plunged into the park to chase their own marathon Some ran around the park clockwise, some counterclockwise,catching over startled dog walkers with a rebel of color.

It was a throwback to the original New York City Marathon in 1970, which was run ragtag with 127 folk and stayed entirely amid Central Park This duration some dropped off clothes and additional supplies for storm victims.

This year's runners all are guaranteed entry into next year's marathon merely not everyone could be sure namely accident would come.

"I'm in the naval and I could be deployed," said Ruben Arredondo, 36, of Los Angeles, who showed up outside the park along 6:45 a.m. to increase a group called the Replacement Marathon, which had been organized online equitable hours ahead.

The a m surge surprised even some participants and their fans. Tracey Busch, of New Jersey, was approximate the finish line with a small cowbell in each hand,clapping aboard passing runners who weaved amongst the crowd of organizers, tourists and medium.

"It was kind of eerie for initially there was not one and afterwards suddenly there was everyone," said Busch, who had arrived around 7 a.m.

Runners refueled at hot dog stands and dodged cyclists and strolling tourists.

"This namely the peerless power of running," said Vincent Laiz, 37, who came from Spain. Seconds after his impromptu and international team counted down the seconds, in German, to eight a.m., whooped and set off.

Some,favor a crew from Bermuda, hadn't entirely shaken the sorrow of the cancellation. "It's favor while you ascertain out namely Santa Claus isn't real," said Spencer Conway, 30, who had turned his country's flag into a cape.

Many runners found a way to volunteer as storm victims.

Instead of running his first marathon, Akil Defour of Brooklyn climbed 20 flights of stairs in a structure without power alternatively heat in Far Rockaway, Queens, to convey water, blankets and peanut butter sandwiches.

"I knew I wanted to volunteer later they canceled the marathon," said Defour, 30, who put in five hours of work with his running team"We decided it would be easier for us athletes to go up and down the buildings."

On Staten Island, where the marathon lesson begins, the runners with backpacks emerged from the ferry for a quick emotional briefing.

"The devastation and abuse you are about to wander into," said Staten Island resident Jonscott Turco, who paused, almost teary. "It's beautiful extraordinary. The only entity I can arrange you for is they're still finding folk remains."

The landscape worsened as they approached the waterfront. Shuttered gas stations. Long gas lines, with folk asleep in their cars.

One man honked and yelled, "There's not marathon! Go kin But folk standing outdoor one deli yelled encouragement: "Thank you, ladies!" ''God namely good-looking"

Near the water, there were no traffic lights and distant accessory sirens. Houses looked favor they had been sacked. Furniture was in front yards, washing machines, TVs.

But an man came out of his family and asked whether the runners had flashlights, and they did. At again house, a home wearing face masks asked for batteries and sweatshirts. They said, "God bless you." The man said, "Let me take your picture"

Mary Wittenberg, the president of the New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, helped transfer edible to a Staten Island home whose house was heavily damaged. "There are so many surplus agony in our community who absence our collective, undivided attention and always the resources we can mobilize the NYRR said in a statement Sunday.

For runner Hana Abdo, the scene was striking When she pedestal out the marathon had been canceled, "I was almost in tears as I've been teaching as two years," she said.

"But what namely two years of my life to somebody's plenary life?"

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Associated Press writer Melissa Murphy contributed.
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Carney calls U S fiscal cliff immediate hazard apt Canadian economy

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MONTREAL - Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says the so-called monetary scarp looming over U.S. lawmakers is the most imminent threat facing the Canadian economy.

Carney, speaking among Montreal, said the latent fallout from political gridlock on a solution that would extend U.S.tax cuts plus spending beyond the present year namely a colossal hazard plus"almost immediate hazard to the domestic economy.

"It could well have implications as policy here among Canada,yet the comely news namely that Canadian authorities have flexibility as either the minister of finance and I outlined."

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty plus Carney either pledged Wednesday to take action apt support the economy whether a impact from the U.S.alternatively Europe, threatened to once again plunge the nation into recession.

Discussion surrounding the all-important monetary precipice has heightened since Tuesday's U.S. election resulted among a second term for Democratic President Barack Obama, as well as a Republican-dominated lower house.

The ideological split among lawmakers but threatened to wreak destruction aboard the American economy last year when the chancellor plus Congress could not accede aboard a handle apt rise the country's debt ceiling, which resulted surrounded a debt rating downgrade plus a mall sell off.

Economists bell that unless the two sides co-operate on a present budget arrangement soon,nearly $600 billion among tax cuts plus spending will abolish abruptly, robbing the U.S. economy of about four percentage points among growth.

Flaherty has said that would move the U.S. into recession swiftly plus the Canadian economy would be sure to follow.

He added Wednesday that all his colleagues by the G20 meeting of leading economic powers last weekend amid Mexico expressed concern nearly how U.S. policy-makers would deal with the threat.

Economists perspective avoiding the fiscal scarp as a no-brainer since its repercussions are so nipping,yet either sides have been unwilling apt migrate off core positions Democrats insist aboard impose hikes as the rich which the Republicans have at present refused apt consider.
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Mammograms For 1 life saved 3 women overtreated

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LONDON (AP) Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.

But that screening comes with a cost: The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily treated for a cancer that would never have threatened their lives.

The expert panel was commissioned by Cancer Research U.K. and Britain's department of health and analyzed evidence from 11 trials in Canada, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.

In Britain, mammograms are usually offered to women aged 50 to 70 every three years as part of the state-funded breast cancer screening program.

Scientists said the British program saves about 1,300 women every year from dying of breast cancer while about 4,000 women are overdiagnosed. By that term, experts mean women treated for cancers that grow too slowly to ever put their lives at risk. This is different from another screening problem: false alarms, which occur when suspicious mammograms lead to biopsies and follow-up tests to rule out cancers that were not present. The study did not look at the false alarm rate.

"It's clear that screening saves lives," said Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research U.K. "But some cancers will be treated that would never have caused any harm and unfortunately, we can't yet tell which cancers are harmful and which are not."

Each year, more than 300,000 women aged 50 to 52 are offered a mammogram through the British program. During the next 20 years of screening every three years, 1 percent of them will get unnecessary treatment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation for a breast cancer that wouldn't ever be dangerous. The review was published online Tuesday in the Lancet journal.

Some critics said the review was a step in the right direction.

"Cancer charities and public health authorities have been misleading women for the past two decades by giving too rosy a picture of the benefits," said Karsten Jorgensen, a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen who has previously published papers on overdiagnosis.

"It's important they have at least acknowledged screening causes substantial harms," he said, adding that countries should now re-evaluate their own breast cancer programs.

In the U.S., a government-appointed task force of experts recommends women at average risk of cancer get mammograms every two years starting at age 50. But the American Cancer Society and other groups advise women to get annual mammograms starting at age 40.

In recent years, the British breast screening program has been slammed for focusing on the benefits of mammograms and downplaying the risks.

Maggie Wilcox, a breast cancer survivor and member of the expert panel, said the current information on mammograms given to British women was inadequate.

"I went into (screening) blindly without knowing about the possibility of overdiagnosis," said Wilcox, 70, who had a mastectomy several years ago. "I just thought, 'it's good for you, so you do it.'"

Knowing what she knows now about the problem of overtreatment, Wilcox says she still would have chosen to get screened. "But I would have wanted to know enough to make an informed choice for myself."


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