Word: breast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back in January's Jones deposition, the only definition of sex applied to Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky -- and not struck down by the judge -- was this: "Contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person." As McAllister notes, Clinton could technically argue that under this definition, oral sex performed on him by Lewinsky means that he did not have "sexual relations" with her even though she did with him. Since perjury requires a conscious lie, McAllister says there is enough ambiguity...
Good News: Breast Cancer...
...timing of chemotherapy may be important for women with breast cancer. A study of 1,500 patients receiving chemotherapy either before or after surgery found that preoperative therapy shrank tumors without affecting chances of survival, allowing more patients to have lumpectomies instead of mastectomies and enabling doctors to assess more quickly how well the drugs worked...
Differentiated cells, by contrast, have already become specialized, with some genes turned on and some turned off, making them into breast or liver or pancreas cells. Although a differentiated cell still contains all the genetic information needed to create a whole new creature, much of that information is suppressed. Nobody had ever succeeded in reprogramming its genes back to the comparatively undifferentiated state suitable for cloning...
...recent years, studies have hinted that olive oil could prevent breast cancer. A new study measuring oleic acid--the oil's chief component--in women, rather than relying on their reports of what they ate, shows no protective effect from the acid. But the oil's cardiovascular benefits still make it a healthy choice...