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...Honey comic, which debuted in 1973, was an X-rated, gory riot of impossibly proportioned heroines and female villains doing battle in varying stages of undress. Cutie Honey herself was a voluptuous android barely in control of her own powers, whose girlish personality contrasted with her zeal for bloody combat. A subsequent animated TV series toned the action down to a Saturday-morning-cartoon level and introduced Cutie Honey to a much larger audience...
...torture, some members of Congress are furious that the U.S. even looked for ways to justify it. "It's just incredible," Republican Senator John McCain told TIME. "Why doesn't every nation in the world now have a green light to do everything it thinks is necessary to combat a 'terrorist threat...
After a doctor identifies a cancer and chooses a combination of drugs to combat it, there is still no guarantee that the drugs will work. That's because no two patients are alike. Subtle differences in their genetic code often determine how well a cancer drug will be tolerated and how quickly it will be broken down in the body. Some people produce enzymes that can neutralize the more toxic side effects of anticancer drugs, while others either lack such agents or have genes that produce the opposite effect, making them more sensitive to the drug's adverse effects. Researchers...
Like many children of World War II veterans, I was raised with a sense of patriotism. My father saw action in that war as a medic, but we never discussed his combat experience. It wasn't until I received orders to go to Vietnam in 1971 that I finally realized what he must have endured. His goodbye to me contained little commentary about what to expect, but his eyes spoke volumes. While the nature of our wars was different, the willingness to sacrifice for others was identical. Like him, I didn't want to talk about what had happened after...
...cavalry reserve back in Des Moines because it gave him a chance to go riding. Called up by the Army, he was examined by a doctor who concluded, "If we sent you overseas you'd shoot a general." Another added, "Yes, and you'd miss him." Barred from combat, Reagan spent the war years making training films at "Fort Roach," the old Hal Roach Studios, just six miles from Hollywood...