Word: breast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps if I were more self-aware, I might feel, at this moment, something like the bitter resentment and sadness of a well-sated, not to say spoiled older child, forcibly weaned from the breast of plenty to make way for younger contenders for (my) Harvard resources. A close friend of mine, a visiting student, spent most of her time here reflecting on the premature graduation and delivery unto the outside world of the Harvard Student...
MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...
...during an intermission of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater--that NATO was issuing a bombing threat. Four weeks ago, they met in a bare, beige room at the Oslo airport, where Ivanov plucked a silk flower from the table arrangement to give her. He also pulled from his breast pocket a paper with 10 "principles" for a solution. Albright noticed some coincided with NATO's. She proposed that they get out pencils and mark the ones they could agree on. After three hours, Ivanov still had not accepted Washington's core demand for a NATO-led peacekeeping force...
...labeled taboo, you can't read the poet Anne Sexton. Katherine Borsecnik, the senior AOL official involved in the development of the service's generally laudable parental controls, acknowledges that "if I have a middle school child who's going to do a research report on breast cancer"--a child with kids-only AOL access can't view sites with even straight medical information about breasts--"I might want to turn off the filters" while helping the child with the research...
...well. With Redux, though, hints of danger had shown up in clinical testing. That's not true of orlistat, either in animals or in human studies conducted in some of the 17 countries where the medication is already available. (An initial suspicion that users had a higher incidence of breast cancer proved unfounded...