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...years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains out." The only thing his parents did wrong, Frazier suggests, was to fail to prepare him for the loss of them...
Decisions, decisions. At this rate, I'll probably end up resorting to the old standby white coat and stethoscope. Maybe this year, I'll sew the initials "UHS" on the breast pocket. Now that would be scary...
Women who have had abortions may increase their breast cancer risk by as much as 50 percent, according to researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. The scientists based their results on interviews with 845 breast cancer patients and 961 healthy women of the same age group. They cautioned that further research was necessary to verify the conclusions. The study also found that the younger the women having the abortion, the greater the risk of breast cancer...
...Most people think that when you say IQ is genetic, you're saying you can't change it. That isn't what it means," insists Christopher Jencks, the liberal social scientist. "If you say breast cancer is hereditary, it tells you nothing about whether you can cure breast cancer." Craig Ramey, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studied poor children who were enrolled as infants in a multiyear program that provided them and their mothers with health care and a stimulating learning environment. Many of them developed and sustained normal IQs of around 100, while those...
...Defense Department are about to harness some of their most sensitive technologies against a new enemy: cancer. Highly classified imaging techniques used in spy aircraft and satellites will now be adapted to spot breast tumors, according to Clinton Administration officials, who will announce the plan this week. "Defense and CIA capabilities are estimated to be about 10 years ahead of medical imaging," says Dr. Susan Blumenthal, deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. But researchers believe technology that enables computers to recognize the shadowy outlines of enemy positions -- say, tanks hidden behind trees -- can also be used to pick...