Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alcohol consumption substantially increases the risk of breast cancer in women, according to a study by Harvard doctors which appeared in yesterday's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine...
...whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books: Okrent and Waggoner's original Rotisserie League Baseball, published by Bantam in 1984, and How to Win at Rotisserie Baseball by American Dreamer Peter Golenbock, just out from Vintage. "If I were to discover a cure for cancer, my obit in the Times would still read, 'Dan Okrent, invented Rotisserie League Baseball,' " notes Okrent, editor of the regional magazine New England Monthly...
Except for a gent who has had a stroke and two senior citizens with cancer, most of the protagonists in this collection of short stories suffer from Updike's disease. By now readers should be familiar with the symptoms: a wistful feeling of dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog...
Since last July, the University has located 65 places where the cancer-causing material must be taken out or contained at an estimated total cost of $1 million, according to a comprehensive list released this week by the administration...
University officials said they do not know which buildings on campus contain asbestos. They added that virtually all buildings constructed before 1978 contain at least some asbestos, which can cause cancer when inhaled...