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...knows why testicular cancer is increasing-or indeed why it strikes. It appears most frequently among white middle-and upper-class men. Two groups run 40 times the normal risk of developing the disease: men with a testicle that failed to descend from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum, a lapse that normally occurs during development of the fetus; and men with a testicle that descended only after they were six years old. Preliminary studies suggest that undescended testicles may be more frequent in boys born to women who received the hormone diethylstilbestrol, or DES, during pregnancy. The hormone...
Every week, freight trains that are sometimes 80 cars long rumble across the Midwest and into the mouth of a mammoth limestone cave in Kansas City, Kans. Below ground, workers descend upon the boxcars and begin unloading the crated cargo. The tight security suggests an underground nuclear test facility, or maybe a toxic waste storage dump. In fact, the site is actually the U.S. Government's largest warehouse for surplus butter...
...world has adopted two different strategies toward luck. Much of the planet for most of its history has tried to woo and conjure and appease it, longingly courting the force to draw near, to descend from the void of the random for an instant and shower fortune on some lucky head. To ward off luck's malevolent side, the infection of a curse, the evil eye, populations have danced and chanted and worked with charms. To predict its whims, they have studied omens, birds' flights, goats' entrails; they have consulted gypsies and star charts...
Morris, his wife Donna and their newborn son Matthew Christopher share a basement room in the "But." When he's not coaching, proctoring, or preparing for a wave of high schoolers to descend upon him in June, Morris busies himself with a wide variety of activities...
...SECOND PART of Escape Artist's trilogy, side two, provides moving anthems for Jeffreys' street heroes. "R.O.C.K." begins with a compelling piano solo by Roy Bittan, and, in epic style, thumping drums and guitar twangs descend. "R-o-c-k rock, it's sweeping across the nation," declares Jeffreys, again using the spelling tactic. "It's rescued me from a fate that's worse than death: just like a destiny, it gives me new breath." Music is inextricable from his existence; it is his escape art. The kids who have nothing else to live for play a battered instrument...