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...predicted almost three-quarters of the malignancies that developed within four years among thousands of middle-age and elderly men. Just as important, the test had a low rate of false positives, 9 percent. That means that the test will steer most patients away from unnecessary surgery.Many men with benign or slow-growing tumors decline surgery, since it may not lengthen their lives, but it often causes such unpleasant consequences as incontinence and impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROSTATE CANCER . . . SCREENING WORKS | 1/24/1995 | See Source »

...There's nothing benign about capitalism," she says.CrimsonAndrew K. Sacha...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Defense Fund Fights to Preserve Square | 1/11/1995 | See Source »

...military would clearly have a negative effect on combat readiness. Prominent military experts such as Gen. Colin Powell and Col. David Hackworth have long opposed the admission of gays to the military. Nor is the situation comparable to desegregation, as Gen. Powell relates: "Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the mos profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument...

Author: By Bradley L. Whitman, | Title: Keep Tradition Alive | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...exposure worked; it brought the Beatles radio celebrity first, recording stardom later. They made their BBC debut on March 7, 1962, three months before their first EMI studio gig and seven months before their first single was released. Nor did they desert the radio after Beatlemania became a benign worldwide epidemic. They continued to work hard and play hard on the BBC, recording 18 songs in one throat-strepping, fingernail-rending session. Up to June 1965, they appeared on 52 BBC broadcasts and played 88 different songs -- some their own compositions, but most the band's diligent imitations of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...turn Home Improvement into TV's biggest family-show hit of the '90s. Allen's first movie went through a similar Disneyfication. The original script, by Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti, was a dark fantasy about a man who accidentally shoots Santa Claus. Eight drafts later, with a more benign death scene and the addition of the father-son relationship, it became a cuddly holiday family film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tim At the Top | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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