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TRIHALOMETHANES: Ironically, these compounds are by-products of the chlorine used to kill waterborne pathogens. The N.R.D.C. estimates that these chemicals may cause more than 10,000 bladder and rectal cancers a year...
...football is a spheroid, measuring 11 to 11-1/4 inches long, with a short circumference of 21 to 21-1/4 inches and a long circumference of 26-1/2 to 28 inches. It is constructed of a rubber bladder inflated to 12-1/2 to 13-1/2 pounds per square inch, and it weighs 14 to 15 ounces...
...flesh is always so weak when the spirit is willing. My cerebral loins were girded into play mode--I thought I knew them all, that Miller, this Bard, Mr. Pinter--but my big toe clamored for a rewarding scratch. My bladder squealed with the agony of Colombian coffee, and the buttocks murmured about the iniquity of the sitting posture. Stomach wanted popcorn, hair demanded combing, and the mind wandered into esoterica. Fight it Gubba, said I, and I did. All resources were summoned onto the stage and bodily rebellion was quashed...
...single leading reason why middle-age men dread going to the doctor, it is the prostate examination. Routinely recommended for those 50 and over, the procedure calls for a physician to insert a gloved finger into the rectum to probe the chestnut-size prostate gland, which is near the bladder and produces some of the fluids in semen. But however uncomfortable and embarrassing the exam may be, it could be a lifesaver. The rate of prostate cancer in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past several years. It strikes 1 in 11 American males and kills more than...
...charts, are as important as blood pressure. John Kennedy's nagging backache surely encouraged his dark and fatal mood in the grim summer of 1961 and made him think a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union lay ahead. Lyndon Johnson's downer after his gall-bladder operation may have resigned him to war in Vietnam. Actually, Bush confesses a few tiny signs of his age -- but mighty...