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There is even a quasi romance with his adversary, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky, an admirable model of today's busy woman. In addition to a grueling office schedule, she has to deal with an unhappy marriage, an advanced pregnancy and the possibility of recurrent breast cancer. Turow puts Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control...
...into cross fire. "The hospitals don't just close their doors to poor people," says Virginia Price-Hastings, director of Los Angeles' trauma hospital programs. "When they're closed, they're closed to everyone." Furthermore, if hospital beds are filled with emergency patients, doctors cannot schedule elective surgeries like breast biopsies, gallbladder removals and cardiac bypasses. Delay a bypass too long, and it can turn into a heart attack -- which brings the patient back to the crowded emergency room...
...satisfied with helping lung cancer overtake breast cancer as a leading killer of women, tobacco companies have also tailored their sales pitch to minorities and the poor. One company recently developed a plan--later dropped--to market a cigarette brand especially targeted at Black smokers...
...United States still has a long way to go. Several pharamaceutical firms, despite pressure and threats of boycotts, plan to assess the risks of drug's abortifacient effects. Others hope to test the drug for its medical effects, unrelated to abortion, on diseases ranging from breast cancer to AIDS...
...year follow-up study of women found to have breast cancer, those who received psychotherapy in groups survived on average nearly twice as long as similar women who did not. "Frankly, I didn't expect any major effect on the course of the disease," says Dr. David Spiegel, who conducted the survey at Stanford University...