Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women cannot count on doses of the hormone estrogen to provide lasting prevention of bone loss after menopause...
This is the ninth stage play that the TNT cable network has sensitively adapted since 1990, including Tennessee Williams' lyrical Orpheus Descending, Jon Klein's rowdy T Bone 'n Weasel and Mamet's own burst of cynicism, The Water Engine. Each has been respected yet retooled to broaden its reach. While A Life in the Theatre is steeped in particulars of the stage, it works as a powerful metaphor for life in any career. Older people are always feeling that tradition is being dishonored and their accumulated lore and knowledge devalued. Younger people always impatiently demand their turn...
...hallway, most of us silent, some exchanging empty pleasantries. At a signal, we lined up in single file, each of us holding a ticket and a picture ID. Before entering the room, each of us in turn was checked, issued another identification number and thumbprinted (for verification). No bone-scans or DNA samples, thank goodness. It'll be years before technology catches...
...Bone-marrow transplants for advanced breast-cancer patients allow some women + whose cancers have spread into 10 or more lymph nodes to undergo more intensive radiation therapy. The 1,200 instances in which the technique has been tried so far suggest that it may add several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect...
Although Cyr may have a bone to pick with Harvard Real Estate, he says Harvard students are a positive force in Cambridge...