Word: cancerous
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...country that has seen such a rapid shift in power. In the most recent of the eight, Disgrace, Coetzee continues this exploration. Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, Disgrace articulates the same concern as Coetzees 1990 novel Age of Iron, in which a retired Professor of Latins struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until the 90s, humanism was the primary discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses in Age of Iron for the survival of humanism despite the violence of South Africas transitional years (the late 80s and early...
...realized the truth: I was afraid. I was afraid of the enraged horde of budding consultants that would inevitably knock down my door, shouting invectives and threatening to stab me with their PalmPilot Styluses. I was afraid that a mob of investment bankers would conspire to give me brain cancer by surrounding me and calling each other with their cell phones. The truth of the matter was that I didn't want to deal with anyone who might be seriously offended by jokes at their expense. The truth of the matter was I didn't really care...
...Navy abuse of power in Vieques is not limited to the relatively far past of the '40s; all of the 9,300 people living in Vieques have experienced the negative effects of Navy occupation of the island. The people of Vieques live in a place where the cancer rate is 27 percent higher than the rest of Puerto Rico; 50 percent of the people are unemployed and 70 percent of the people live under the official poverty line. Vieques, where fishing has been an essential livelihood for hundreds of years, is greatly affected when most of its waters are kept...
DIED. GENE LEVITT, 79, Brooklyn-born TV writer-director who created the 1970s series Fantasy Island; of prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Levitt produced cop shows like Barnaby Jones and Hawaii Five-0, but it was his success with the Ricardo Montalban-Herve Villechaize vehicle Fantasy Island ("Da plane! Da plane!") that allowed him to take a few years off to live on his sailboat in Hawaii...
...papillomavirus, the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital warts, usually goes away on its own. But if it doesn't? A Swedish study now confirms what many doctors have suspected. A persistent HPV infection--one that hangs on for at least a year--raises the odds of developing cervical cancer 200-fold. And there's not too much you can do to prevent HPV. Condoms help somewhat, but monogamy or abstention is the only surefire way to be safe...