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...1960s, the incidence of breast cancer was about 1 in 200 women and was rare in men. The incidence of breast cancer where I live is now about 1 in 6 women, and I have known two men who had breast cancer. Your articles would have us blame the victims for their disease - self-induced by unhealthy lifestyles and obesity. The alarming increase in cancers is the result of a toxic environment. As the breast-cancer advocacy group Rachel's Friends says, "You can race for the cure, but you can't run from the cause." If a cure...
...Hail to the Thief” or “Kid A”: They’re pretty bad, as far as criticism goes. They give the records glowing reviews, but in vague terms, without quite knowing why.And it’s hard to blame the writers. Scoring that big Radiohead review from your editor was mostly a pyrrhic victory. Sure, you get the big byline, but you also get to look like an idiot, because it takes countless listens, interviews, features, and tea-leaf readings to really get to know a disc like “Amnesiac...
Gore's film presses the point that coral reefs are being bleached because of environmental change. ButBurton maintains that the climate does not bear the burden alone. Overfishing and pollution are also to blame...
Your articles would have us blame the victims for their disease--self-induced by unhealthy lifestyles and obesity. The alarming increase in cancers is the result of a toxic environment. If a cure for cancer is found, it will be the result of a grass-roots campaign to stop the release of pollutants into the environment. Cancer science is working on the wrong end of the problem...
...Many French people have adopted the traditional Gallic shrug toward striking public service workers who have left them stranded. "You can't blame them for protecting their perks. No want wants entitlements taken away," said university student Anne Gautier, 22, as she walked away from a crowded Metro station to walk to classes. But not all Parisians were pounding the pavement with the same sympathetic mood. "As usual, the ordinary worker being taken hostage by a minority of people who've decided they come first," complains an accountant who would only give her first name, Chantal. "I didn't strike...