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Several Harvard scientists have published research supporting the use of radiotherapy as an equally successful but less disfiguring alternative to radical masectomy, the standard American treatment for breast cancer...
...study, which appeared Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that as many women survived breast cancer when treated with intensive, carefully controlled doses of radiation as when doctors used radical surgery to remove the breast and adjacent tissues...
Weber said that radiation techniques used are "not well known in this country", but are widely used in Europe. The study was difficult to publish in a widely read medical journal because it "goes against the American Cancer Society's recommendation for the treatment of breast cancer...
...square footage of exposed epidermis, the cover of this month's Playboy is hardly remarkable: a couple of bare arms and a single unholstered breast. But those appendages belong not to one comely lady but to two, and their embrace suggests something more than a hello. Inside are ten color pages of female couples in various stages of sapphic bliss. Has Playboy, the bible of macho heterosexuality, gone lesbian...
...brutalized boy in The Painted Bird and perhaps his inevitable successor. Where the boy was tortured by a primitive, irrational peasantry, Tarden is the tormentor, choosing his victims arbitrarily and without passion. As a child of three, he recalls, Tarden plunged a pair of scissors into the breast of his nurse; he remembers watching the purple stain spreading through her blouse. He moves on to varieties of cruelty that defy, one would have thought, imagining...