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...serious about protecting yourself and your loved ones against colorectal cancer, it will help to know something about the disease. Nearly all colon cancers start as polyps, tiny grapelike projections that sprout on the inside of the large intestine. Most of the time these growths are benign, but occasionally a collection of cells--through a series of genetic mishaps--will get bigger and bigger until it turns into a tumor. About 25% of these malignant growths are triggered by a genetic predisposition that has been present since birth. The rest of the time, normal genes become damaged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...casualties, Israel chose not to attack [civilian] targets" and then continues to call for us to "go beyond rhetoric." The sad fact is the Israelis did choose to bomb a power plant outside of Beirut which supplies energy to almost one million citizens. The article further paints far too benign a picture of the Israeli army's involvement in Lebanon which in the summer of 1982 alone resulted in 17,000 deaths. If we want to move beyond rhetoric we have no choice but to squarely look at the historical sins of all players, especially of those closest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

During solar maximums, space weather becomes stormy. The normally benign sun pounds the earth mercilessly with ultraviolet radiation, X rays and floods of charged particles, distorting the planet's protective magnetic field and inducing powerful electric currents that can wreak havoc not only with spacecraft but also with many aspects of terrestrial life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stormy Weather | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

There are a few reasons McCain got a pass, beyond his reputation for personal tolerance. Absent malice, gaydar seems relatively harmless. I consider my own gaydar benign, although wildly inaccurate and way too broad. (A man who doesn't succumb to my charms? Must be gay!) We've all guessed wrong, and not just about Rock Hudson. But could guessing be, as a gay friend put it last week, "a measure of how far we've come"? When I was growing up, who was or wasn't gay was a subject no one touched. I remember the bachelor real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and His Gaydar | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...toward me, holding a serrated knife in her hand. The alluring co-star of Girl, Interrupted has a lurid fascination with sharp metal objects--exotic daggers, tattoo needles, the works. She has even confessed to cutting her own skin in the past. But tonight she's in a more benign mood, so Jolie slinks past me and proceeds to carve up a steak delivered from room service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel Without a Pause | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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