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...odds are it has been growing for five to seven years. What if doctors could find even younger (and therefore presumably easier to treat) breast tumors? That's the question that a group of researchers asked themselves at a conference sponsored by the Department of Defense that ended in Atlanta last week. Their cautious conclusion: with a little help from the biotech industry, they may have found some good strategies for uncovering the tiniest of tumors...
...show. "Just like The Real World, you know?" Indeed. Some seasons, The Real World has seemed like a postgraduate program for aspiring actors, models and singers, with more than 35,000 applicants a year. "The ideal candidate [for a VTV show] would be a strong narcissist," says Atlanta psychologist Robert Simmermon, a fellow in the division of media psychology of the American Psychological Association. "Narcissism is not all a bad thing. It's kind of like cholesterol. You have good and bad narcissism, and you have to have a healthy...
Night after night she shows up to play, as if she were just another gym rat. And not many of the guys at Crunch Fitness in Atlanta recognize the point guard with the braided hair, even when she starts raining jumpers on them...
...storied Edwards dribbling in obscurity in Atlanta instead of getting ready for Sydney with her sister Olympians? Short answer: the money woes and uneven support that still beset women's basketball. As a co-founder and star of the American Basketball League, Edwards found herself out of work last year when the league was buried by the rival WNBA--which is backed by the NBA The WNBA clearly coveted Edwards' star power, but it refused to pay her more than the $65,000-a-season rookie rate--about half Edwards' ABL pay and far less than...
Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives have - surprise, surprise - chosen the slow road for their appeal to keep the boy in the U.S., and that's just fine with Fidel Castro. Lawyers acting for great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review their decision upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the six-year-old couldn't apply for asylum in the U.S. against the wishes of his father. That request is likely to be a prelude to the eventual Supreme Court appeal that the Miami relatives have long vowed they...