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Epidemiological studies, those which collect cast amounts of data useful in predicting risks, are also utilized by some scientists to determine the causes of breast cancer. Dr. Susan I. Troyan, a breast surgeon and director of research at the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is one such researcher...
Today is Secretaries' Day. In offices where they care about such things, the day is traditionally celebrated by taking the secretary out to a long lunch, or buying her a potted plant. Of course, most secretaries would rather be said a decent living wage all year round than collect one more "Secretaries Are Great" pin, but Secretaries' Day is not about politics. It is about promoting Hallmark...
...closest colleagues, broke into sobs as she visited the crime scene. Joe Slovo, who handed control of South Africa's Communist Party to Hani in 1991 after being stricken with cancer, told a radio station in a trembling voice that he was "shocked and shaken" and needed "time to collect my thoughts...
...long as the Athletic Department is charging a fee for participation cards, it's accepting the fact that recreational users are a constituency too. Perhaps it might find ways, through careful scheduling, to accommodate the college without so frequently banishing the rest of us. It might collect all the blackout times and dates on a single notice (something that's never been done). It might even leave copies of such a notice, regularly updated, where we could pick them up. Then we could stop pinning pencils and notebooks to our jogging shorts...
...editors rejected the gender and economic disadvantage categories for affirmative action, while the sexual orientation proposal was withdrawn. Editors did agree to collect information over the next three years to enable them to make a more informed decision on the gender and sexual orientation issues...