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Critics say cronyism and greed are to blame for many of the misguided budget decisions. They seem to have a strong case when it comes to the Army's Crusader. It's not a nimble weapon; the two-vehicle system weighs more than 80 tons. Designed to destroy Warsaw Pact tanks on the German plain, it might have some utility if the U.S. Army ever has to battle Iraqi tanks, in the unlikely event that air power can't finish the job. The Crusader has detractors, like candidate Bush, but it also has powerful backers. United Defense, the company building...
...Surgeons are developing several techniques that destroy tumors while sparing more breast tissue--without reducing the chances of survival. (This can be particularly important for small-breasted women who don't necessarily have a lot of tissue to spare in the first place...
Thirty years ago, surgery meant mastectomy--removal of the entire breast. By the 1980s, studies had shown that for tumors that had not spread, only the portion immediately surrounding the cancerous growth needed to be cut away--provided the operation was followed by radiation therapy to destroy any wayward cancer cells the surgeon may have missed. Today, as more women are being treated for ever smaller tumors, doctors are finding that even these so-called lumpectomies can be further refined...
...clear signal that chemotherapy was required. But at the upcoming meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in May, a group of cancer experts will recommend that these minute malignancies be left alone, as long as the original breast tumor is small. "We used to seek out and destroy every cell," says Dr. Eva Singletary, a breast surgeon at the M.D. Anderson Center in Houston, who chairs the expert panel. "Now we try to target and control our treatment...
...Dennis Bock's well-wrought first novel The Ash Garden (Knopf; 281 pages) cuts through the moral debates surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and paints a humane, detailed tableau of its fallout on both its American creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic...