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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...
Councillor Marjorie Decker said that though she has long supported the protection of open land, building more affordable housing will mean either less green space or denser constructions—something that many Cambridge residents, particularly in the eastern part of the city where the debate was held, have opposed...
Councillor Craig A. Kelley agreed, but said that denser constructions are needed given the city’s goals. He added that some neighborhoods—chiefly the area between Inman Square and Lechmere—have taken on too much of the burden of new housing constructions, and that if the city were to spread density evenly across the neighborhoods, much of the opposition to new construction would disappear...
...tiles damaged by debris, the greater the jagged area exposed to the force of rentry - something which can, in theory, lead to a catastrophic peeling away of whole stretches of tiles. The comparative severity of the injury to Endeavour is leading NASA to conclude that it was probably denser ice, not comparatively light foam, that is responsible for the damage...
...over what could have been unsightly scars by proving the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Throw film composer Nicholas Hooper into that category, too, for his deeply felt (if occasionally intrusive) score. Their technique of nipping excess plot from denser portions of the film and grafting them onto thinner places is an ingenious way to make even dramatic edits blend right...