Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describes the diet-pill debacle as such "easy" pickings that he expects "many thousands of lawsuits scattered all around the country." Eventually, say some analysts, the Redux-fenfluramine recall could grow into one of the biggest medical-liability cases in history, perhaps exceeding the anticipated $2.4 billion from silicone breast implants...
...Jews are thought to carry the defective gene, but that's enough to make it, according to the New York Times, "the most common known cancer gene in a particular population." And colon cancer is just one disease for which Ashkenazi Jews seem to have a disproportionate genetic tendency. Breast cancer, Tay-Sachs and cystic fibrosis are others. The Times reports that this is the result of too much intermarriage during the Middle Ages! So tell that to your mother, Jewish boys of America...
...picked up her Emmy for Cheers. Her Hollywood pals didn't know what to think recently when she publicly ribbed her buddy John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston. "I said John had puppies' feet hidden in his freezer and that his wife drank breast milk for breakfast," she says, shaking her head in disbelief at the silliness. "I wanted to make him laugh, and I did. But it came out weirder than I thought it would. Jay Leno asked me if I'd been talking to Marlon Brando lately...
...first two, we eventually learn, were incestuously abused by their father when they were children. Rose, who has breast cancer, has never forgotten his long-ago depredations, but they have been buried deep in Ginny's unconscious, from which her sister is determined to dig them out. All this is terribly up to date, "relevant" according to the vulgar standards set for us by the endlessly instructing voices of media shrinks...
...black men in Alabama. But as TIME Medical Correspondent Christine Gorman reports, the comparison won't wash, "because there is still an open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from mother to child by breast-feeding ? common enough in the Third World to render AZT treatment futile. While the researchers' ethics may be in question, the CDC is still far away from Tuskegee...