Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I told my wife, who is also 52, about my day-long physical, she wondered if she would have had the same experience. Not exactly. A mammogram, pelvic exam and Pap smear are obvious differences. The effects of hormonal changes associated with menopause, like hot flashes or bone loss, would also be tested. Beyond these, says Dr. Richard Lang, "the issues are the same, but modified by gender...
...female Frank McCourt. While she's no slouch at depicting old-sod poverty--sleeping with a scrap of sheet to keep her father's overcoat from scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering of the sadness lurking at the edges of every adult life. She understands how the most contented of us can still be overwhelmed unexpectedly by regret for the life not led. She's had torrid affairs but lacks "one single friend from all that ardour." She wishes she had been...
...limit in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Yes, Harvard came into the season as the two-time defending Ivy League champions--having only graduated two players--but two-time First Team All-American and Ivy Player of the Year Emily Stauffer was taking the fall semester off after donating bone marrow to her brother, who was suffering from leukemia...
What loomed largest in the minds of the Netscapers, however, was something very real and implacable: the bone-crushing giant from the north that could jump in any time and snatch away the revolutionary business it had built from nothing. Microsoft was its name...
FAMILY SKELETONS More evidence that if your mother has osteoporosis, you may be at risk for it: researchers have found a mutation in a gene that codes for collagen (the tough fibrous protein in skin and bone), which could predispose women to the bone-weakening ailment...