Word: breast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better schools (the hot topic this year), more jobs, less crime and "digital" leadership based on "horizontal" decision-making. Harman is sharper than that, but hasn't often proved it. At a women's political caucus in Concord last month, her appeal was so generic and gender-based--breast-cancer research, abortion rights, child care, and her signature wrap-up line, "May the best woman win"--that some in the audience were left shaking their heads. "She was asking for my vote because we're both female," said Ginny Perez, a plumber who was taking a cigarette break after...
...time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug called tamoxifen--and offering it to patients getting the placebo--because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine cancer). Then preliminary reports indicated that another drug, raloxifene, might prevent breast cancer without triggering new malignancies. Two weeks later came the Times's report that two new drugs can shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever...
...growth was only slowed, not halted. Dr. Joseph Sparano, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, who is pursuing still another approach to anti-angiogenesis, says he doesn't need to stop tumor growth completely to judge his experiment a success: "If we can make patients with metastatic breast cancer live 20 years and not have symptoms, that may be as good as a cure...
...several plastic surgeries she underwent to feed her vanity and draw ogles at the tony Main Line gym where she worked out almost daily, a spandex emporium for the young and the restless. He can give you the dates too, for the nose job, the eye job, the breast job, the chemical peels...
...play the all-female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele (1996), which featured a photo inside of Amos breast-feeding a piglet ("My 'madonna and child'--my father always wanted me to do a Christmas card," she laughs), took its first bow at No. 2 on the Billboard charts...