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...foray into the online world. "The name of our business is how many eyeballs look at our content," says Howard Tyner, editor of the Chicago Tribune. "If you look just at ink on paper, the number of eyeballs is going down. But to all the people thumping their breast about the end of the daily newspaper, I say, 'Phooey.'" He whips out plans for a $7 million renovation of the Tribune building that will bring the company's print, Internet and cable operations into close contact with one another. Nine companies, including Hearst, the New York Times...
...Frederic Ellis, lawyer for 67-year-old Florence Vasallo, whose 1977 silicone breast implants from Baxter International Inc. ruptured and led to immune system disease. A Massachusetts jury awarded her $1.5 million in damages this week...
...Once thought rare, a mutation in a BREAST CANCER gene turns out to occur in 1% of Ashkenazi Jewish women. These findings, combined with data showing that 1% of that population carry a flaw in a different breast cancer gene, means that 1 in 50 Ashkenazi Jewish women may have inherited a risk for the disease...
DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday...
PHILADELPHIA: A woman is 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer if she has had an abortion, according to a new study in the October Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Using a research technique known as meta-analysis, researchers collected information from 23 studies involving 25,967 women with breast cancer and 34,977 without it then reanalyzed the old data to find out how many had had abortions. "Although this study is not as good as others that have come before it," says TIME's science writer Christine Gorman, "there is definitely something there that needs...