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...papers,” she says. In a photograph of her refrigerator, which is absent from the exhibit but is included in the exhibition catalogue, the appliance bears a magazine pullout entitled, “Do I Dare to Eat a Strawberry?” A jar of Colon Cleanse sits on top of the fridge next to a box of Cheerios.Calling herself a “technophobe,” Davey says she is old-fashioned in an era when digital photography and manipulation runs rampant. “Photography has changed so much away from that kind...
...least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more distractions. You type out your title. Despite exhaustion, the standard punctuation easily flows out as you make sure your...
...subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...studied some 200 of the Fry family's New York descendants and identified about 50 with the genetic mutation. Family members actually have a very low risk of inheriting the genetic mutation - about 1 in 8,000 - but those who do have it run a 69% risk of developing colon cancer by age 80, if they don't seek proper clinical care...
Neklason says that her study underscores the importance of knowing one's family history, being vigilant about health and, if necessary, getting a genetic test. About 5% of colon cancers are known to be hereditary, and another 25% have some familial, or genetic, component that researchers have not yet pinpointed (the majority of colon cancers, however, are linked to environmental and lifestyle factors, such as diet and smoking). If you have had 10 or more polyps, then you should consider genetic testing; if a genetic mutation is identified, your relatives should also be tested. If your family lineage links...