Word: disc
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...developed a program that enables a woman, in conjunction with her health-care provider, to calculate her own risk of developing breast cancer by answering a series of questions about her medical and family history. You can order the program, which is formatted on a regular 3 1/2-in. floppy disc (available for Windows or Mac), free at cancertrials.nci.nih.gov or by calling 800-4-CANCER. You'll probably have to wait a few weeks to receive it, since the NCI has already mailed out most of the copies it had on hand. Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures tamoxifen under the brand name...
Once you get the program, you'll be happy to learn, as I did last week, that you don't have to be a computer whiz to use it. I recommend taking the tutorial on the disc before calculating your own risk; it will help you make better sense of your results. And you'll get more out of the program if you talk it over with your physician...
...taken the reading list very seriously," Coles says. "He thought he might want to teach a section. We were about to do it, but he was making a new disc...
Nashville Pussy was kind enough to supply The Harvard Crimson with its special "bonus disc of rare tracks," creatively titled Eat More Pussy. It's pretty much more of the same, but perhaps a tad more musical than the tracks on the LP. Sometimes they even allow Cartwright to sing something resembling an audible melody. Not to worry, however; Suys always takes over with her guitar before he can get too much out. She especially shines in "Milk Cow Blues" with some truly jaw-dropping guitar solos...
...criticisms go, Nashville Pussy is not the place to look for nuance or subtlety. I guess I first realized this when I noticed that the disc of Eat More Pussy is decorated with a knife and fork. Variety isn't a strong point, either; all the songs sound basically the same. Often, the only way I could tell that one song had ended and another had begun was the brief period of feedback which opens nearly every song, a habit I found to be too juvenile and hackneyed for the level of music they were performing...