Word: colons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MIKE MCALARY, 41, tabloid columnist; of colon cancer; in New York City. Over the course of his career, the pugnacious, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist wrote extensively--and often empathically--about the city's police for the New York Daily News and the New York Post. But he was no apologist: in 1997 he broke the story of a brutal police beating of a Haitian immigrant...
...where have these good germs been lurking all your life? In your intestines, especially the lower section called the colon, which harbors at least 400 species of bacteria. Which ones you have depends largely on your environment and diet. An abundance of good bacteria in the colon generally crowds out stray bad bacteria in your food. But if the bad outnumber the good--for example, after antibiotic treatment for a sinus or an ear infection, which kills normal intestinal germs as well--the result can be diarrhea...
...players' parents were in the hospital: Brosius' dad with cancer and Pettitte's with heart trouble. Yankee fans rallied around Wells after he suffered "your mama" jokes from opposing fans who didn't realize that his mother had recently died. Strawberry, the recovering troublemaker, was hospitalized with colon cancer in the middle of the play-offs. So everybody stitched his number on their hats, even ex-teammate Jim Leyritz, who played on the opposing Padres. Hernandez pitched his first American season after paddling on a boat to escape from Cuba. His family was permitted to leave Havana for a ticker...
...study focused exclusively on women. The article does note another study that found that "men who used supplements for more than 10 years had a moderately reduced risk for colon cancer...
...Teresa Fung, nutrition consultant for Harvard Dining Services, said that the food in Harvard's dining halls provide enough folate to protect students from the dangers of colon cancer...