Article: Bridgestone holds tight to top spot for 2006; Bridgestone Corp retained its spot as the world's largest tyre maker in 2006, just barely ahead of Michelin, behind an 11-percent spurt in sales.(Global Tyre Report)

Article: Prostate cancer treatment disputed
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... biopsy and other tests. More than 90 percent of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer ... receive follow-up treatment. Only about 8 percent receive what is called active surveillance ... said. In recent studies, between 20 percent and 54 percent of prostate diagnoses were ...

Article: Davis deals with off-court issues
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     641 words ... ... not related to the health of his grandmother, Lela Nicholson. "I still have a job, and I have to give my teammates 110 percent of me as a basketball player," said Davis, who was absent from practice on Thursday to deal with the situation. "I felt ...

Article: Straight dope on Bonds? Nope
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 1993, in his first year of eligibility, Steve Garvey got 176 votes, 41.6 percent. In his final year of eligibility in 2007, he got 135 votes, 26.6 percent. Strange, particularly when you consider in his first year of eligibility ...

Article: Ohlone women spurt to victory
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     600 words ... ... of injured players. They had injured players who didn't play, and they had injured players who played at less than 100 percent. Yet, they managed to stick it out, and they have proven to be one of the top teams in conference -- and in Northern California ...

Article: MTC critics call for equal money spent on AC Transit
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... AC Transit, which serves 230,000 bus riders a day -- 80 percent of whom are non-white. To combat that inequity, a small ... do so is limited because some of that money comes from county sales taxes approved by voters on the condition that it is spent on ...

Article: A LOOK AT . . . Standards of Learning; Voices From the Front
The Washington Post;  January 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... first try at the SOL test: * Fifth-graders at Franklin Sherman Elementary in McLean scored 82 percent in English, 69 percent in math, 55 percent in history and 79 percent in science. Because the Standards of Learning tests focus on specific ...

Article: Prostate cancer experts against overtreatment
Oakland Tribune;  January 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... biopsy and other tests. More than 90 percent of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer ... receive follow-up treatment. Only about 8 percent receive what is called "active surveillance ... said. In recent studies, between 20 percent and 54 percent of prostate diagnoses were ...