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Whatever their age, women with small tumors that have not invaded the lymph nodes have a 90% chance of surviving at least five years. As the disease spreads, however, the odds of survival drop sharply. Thus cancer experts agree that a woman's best hope for a cure, whatever her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Messages on Mammograms | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

The failure in the booster-rocket test was unrelated to the malfunction that caused the Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, when fire burned through an O-ring that sealed the joint between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Grounded: Another setback for the shuttle | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

It started three years ago, when the editors of Harper's Magazine came up with a bright idea: to tell the story of modernity through its mundanity. Thus was born the Harper's Index, a monthly potpourri of pop trivia gleaned from the chroniclers and quantifiers of all things great...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Untrivial Pursuits | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

Mrs. Reagan's decision to have a modified radical mastectomy -- the removal of the entire breast and underarm lymph nodes -- struck some doctors as extreme. The reason: her tumor was just a quarter-inch in diameter -- small enough to have been safely excised by a less disfiguring operation called a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Was This Operation Necessary? | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Architect Pierre L'Enfant proposed a monument to the U.S. Navy when he designed the nation's capital in 1791, but not until last week, on the Navy's 212th anniversary, was a memorial to the service finally dedicated. The 100- ft.-diameter circular plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue "enshrines, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: A Salute to The Sailors | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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