Word: colonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Studies have linked smoking to the development of benign intestinal polyps. A survey of 170,000 people has shown that smokers have up to twice the risk of developing colon cancer as nonsmokers. For most people, the cancer takes as long as 35 years to develop...
...LYDIA COLON'S MOST PRESSING POLITIcal concern is garbage. A 5-ft. heap of it, piled outside an abandoned row house next door to her home in North Philadelphia, has broken through her chain-link fence. "I would vote 100 times, as long as they come and clean it up," says Colon, a 54-year-old native of Puerto Rico. That may be necessary, since she got no results from the two times she voted in last fall's election...
...Colon says she hadn't intended to vote at all, but when a Democratic Party worker came to her door last October asking her to cast a ballot for his party's state senate candidate, Colon showed him the garbage and asked for his help. The visitor assured her that the Democrats would remove the debris if she just signed a form requesting it. She did and was so delighted at the prospect of a clean backyard that she changed her mind and decided to vote. "I was really happy that they were going to clean...
...What Colon didn't know was that the vote she cast in the booth was her second; the form she had signed to remove the trash was actually an absentee ballot. She was not alone. While state and federal investigators dropped their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting...
Meanwhile, next week Marks will be suing Stinson in federal court to overthrow the election results. In the meantime, while Republicans refuse to call him senator, Stinson continues to vote. As for Colon, she declares, "I'll never vote again." And the trash heap next to her backyard continues to grow...