Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previous similar studies on women have yielded conflicting results. Complicating the studies has been the fact that women are less at risk for heart disease than men and, drink for drink, accumulate more alcohol in their blood. Moreover, women who drink are more susceptible to alcoholic liver disease and breast cancer...
...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
...literally piggyback a ride into people during transplant surgery, leading to new diseases in humans. Yet transplant doctors are optimistic that such technical obstacles can be surmounted. Then it will be up to the patients to decide how they feel about having a pig's heart beating in their breast. --Reported by Alice Park/ New York
...cast is one of the most talented, cohesive and dexterous to grace a Harvard stage in some time; and for a few aching moments, at the opening of the play, they give us scenes from Shakespeare that are truly lovely. The fond hope arises in one's breast-- perhaps they will abandom the sophomoric Shakespearean parody into which they have been forced and perform Twelfth Nightor As You Like It. instead...
...then, the form had set: he would grow up solitary, without close emotional connections to anyone, a natural exile. Tellingly, the most common recurrent image in his work until the end of the '50s was of the mother and child-the denied paradise of union with the breast, with the mother appearing sometimes as a figure of nurture but also as dominating, threatening, all-ab-sorbing. The sense of a voracious emotional need that beats behind some of Fairweather's coolest and most "classical" friezelike paintings is nothing other than the desire for integration, resolved in art as formal harmony...