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...less than a third of women over 40 have mammograms every one to two years, as experts recommend? One reason may be lingering fears about radiation exposure. Nowadays, however, mammography doses are about one-tenth of what they were 20 years ago -- less than one receives from cosmic rays on an airplane flight. A more significant factor, says Dr. Sarah Fox, a UCLA professor of family medicine, is "that physicians aren't making the recommendations." Doctors often feel that mammograms are unnecessary for women who are not in a high-risk category. "Sometimes they...
...world, with a surreal, decisive crispness, has been sorting itself into categories of Old Paradigm and New Paradigm. The 1990s have become a transforming boundary between one age and another, between a scheme of things that has disintegrated and another that is taking shape. A millennium is coming, a cosmic divide. The 20th century is an almost extinct volcano; the 21st is an embryo...
...most cases, the changes that lead to breast cancer begin accumulating after birth, perhaps triggered by some set of environmental stresses, whether random cosmic rays or a dietary factor. Some women, however, start out with the genetic deck stacked against them. Like Burkhardt and her sisters, they stand a greater risk of developing breast cancer, in both breasts and at an earlier age, than other women...
...Best Cosmic Comeback After appearing to be dead in space, Magellan got cranked up again and sent back the most spectacular pictures ever taken of Venus. They reveal Earth's nearest neighbor to be a caldron of recent volcanic activity -- not a promising spot for vacation homes...
...have been bombarded with recipes to ripen their personal lives, if not their professional ones. They are now Lamaze-class regulars and can be found in the delivery room for the cosmic event instead of pacing the waiting-room floor. They have been instructed to bond with children, wives, colleagues and anyone else they can find. Exactly how remains unclear. Self-help books, like Twinkies, give brief highs and do not begin to address the uneven changes in their lives over the past 20 years. "Men aren't any happier in the '90s than they were in the '50s," observes...