Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labeled taboo, you can't read the poet Anne Sexton. Katherine Borsecnik, the senior AOL official involved in the development of the service's generally laudable parental controls, acknowledges that "if I have a middle school child who's going to do a research report on breast cancer"--a child with kids-only AOL access can't view sites with even straight medical information about breasts--"I might want to turn off the filters" while helping the child with the research...
Violent video games, Grossman argues, prepare kids to kill and even teach them to enjoy the experience. Of course, "not everybody who plays these games will become a murderer," Grossman says. "Just as not everybody who smokes gets cancer. But they will all get sickened...
...With Redux, though, hints of danger had shown up in clinical testing. That's not true of orlistat, either in animals or in human studies conducted in some of the 17 countries where the medication is already available. (An initial suspicion that users had a higher incidence of breast cancer proved unfounded...
...play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received import from Britain, The Weir, is a 90-minute chamber piece in which the denizens of a bar in Ireland trade ghost stories. This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Wit, an affecting play about a woman dying of cancer, but essentially an expanded monologue...
...Vatican investigated the friar and curtailed his activities. But he was sought out by believers, including, in 1947, a Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla, who reportedly was told he'd someday be Pope. As Cracow's auxiliary bishop, Wojtyla asked Padre Pio to pray for a friend with cancer; she recovered, and is still alive. In 1983 the Pontiff put him on the path to sainthood, and the final step of canonization could come within the next decade...