Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After joining King's study group, Fisher learned that she carried the telltale pattern of markers. The agonizing question: What should she do? Huge numbers of women will eventually face the same dilemma. The inherited form of breast cancer accounts for 5% to 10% of cases, says King, meaning that "there might be half a million women who either already have or will develop the disease because of this gene." Carriers have an 85% chance of getting breast cancer...
Therein lies the dilemma currently posed by the genetic revolution. Do people want to know about genetic defects that can't be corrected yet? Vicki Balogh of Trenton, Michigan, is facing such a moment of truth right now, as she awaits the results of a test that will tell her whether she carries the gene for ataxia. The degenerative disease killed her mother at 52 and has already started to destroy the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord of three of Vicki's brothers. "I'm 35, and that's young enough to make a career change," says...
...always kind to women as they age. A young woman might be discriminated against; an older woman is often seen as irrelevant. Actresses have complained for years that their male counterparts don't run into the same career roadblocks they do once they reach 40, but the dilemma is more serious than whether Meryl Streep is in as much demand as Jack Nicholson. Lauren Hutton and stories about older women and younger men notwithstanding, the woman who can no longer give birth may sometimes feel as used up in modern America as she was in preindustrial times, when bearing children...
Hanks' Andy is a wonderful fellow: chipper, supremely competent, lavishing genial respect on colleagues high and low. He also seems a good subject for a sensibly daring film about AIDS. And for its first hour, Philadelphia is a pretty fine social comedy about private pain; it lays out the dilemma with a grace almost worthy of Hanks' bravely understated playing. But then it becomes % much too timid. It says that the death threat hanging over gays commands our sympathy for them. It renounces character shadings for easy good guys (Andy's huge family, each one of them amazingly accepting...
...exactly at a moment such as this, in the aftermath of a searing crime, that gun-control advocates run into a dilemma. For each person watching the mayhem on the 5:33 who came away thinking it is time to take the guns away from the madmen, someone else was thinking it might be time to go out and buy a gun. A lot of people, in fact, may be thinking both at once...