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...Merely detecting breast malignancies in the Asian population may present special difficulties. Asian women tend to have denser breast tissue than other women, and many studies show dense tissue is up to five times as likely to develop malignancies. What's more, such tissue can conceal the disease since both tumors and healthy tissue may show up white on a mammogram. Asian women even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of Breast Cancer | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...given us the tell-all circus that is Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante also seems to have produced a striking rise in Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life Western pop culture reveals, the more Muslim women decide to conceal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baring Our Selves | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...Today, Locke's narrow, dirt paths, stray cats and precariously-leaning buildings conceal a secret: Locke's identity is changing. Today, only 12 of the 80 residents are Chinese, with whites and Latinos having gradually replaced the founding population. On weekends, most visitors are leather-clad bikers who stop in to grab a steak and beer at Al the Wop's, one of Locke's two restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving a Countryside Chinatown | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...exquisite corpse was a parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it to a companion for continuation, and so on around the table. The first attempt contained the nonsense phrase "exquisite corpse," and the name stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrealist Pen Pals | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Villa Gillet cultural center and one of the editors of As You Were Saying. "When authors decide to play this kind of game, there is always something unexpected, something magical about it." If magic is what Walter and his colleagues are after, then here's a tip: next time, conceal part of the original stories before passing them along. It worked for the Surrealists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrealist Pen Pals | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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