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Fingers of the male pool tended to be longer than the average male’s, he found—a trait explained by unusually high levels of estrogen. You know, the female hormone. Turns out a little bit of extra breast fat can go a long way in the laboratory...
...It’s certainly comparable in terms of other things we screen for like colon cancer, breast cancer, and hypertension,” said Dr. Gillian Sanders, an author of the other study...
...Compared to a mammography for breast cancer,” she said, “this is an efficient test...
...They should cheer instead. Big Breasts is a celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters...
...Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill with saliva," he confesses. That weakness brings him a mountain of trouble, and every time fortune...