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...Fortunate Ones. To be sure, some women suffer only minor discomfort during and after menopause; they undergo changes slowly. Dr. Wilson believes that these fortunate ones are only 15% of the total, whereas other doctors put the number as high as 40% to 50%. For the rest, whatever the percentage, Dr. Wilson is an all-out advocate of hormone replacement therapy, preferably beginning as early as age 30. With proper professional caution, he insists that a woman should take hormones only under a doctor's care, and should have a Papanicolaou smear test every year. The test serves...
...sexes as the stuff of which life and plays are made. William Goodhart makes it laughing matter in a lighthearted comedy about a doting father (Henry Fonda) who finds his daughter and her nonconformist husband living in a Greenwich Village loft and-much to dad's discomfort-liking...
...responsibilities. He was the sinewy personification of the American fighting man in 1965 who, through the monsoon mud of nameless hamlets, amidst the swirling sand of seagirt enclaves, atop the jungled mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, served as the instrument of U.S. policy, quietly en during the terror and discomfort of a conflict that was not yet a war, on a battlefield that was all no man's land...
...article in the fall issue of Connection, a Graduate School of Design magazine, Ackerman said that "though a building lasts longer, costs more, and can cause more discomfort than a professor, we often acquire it with less care and expert advice...
...asked the Chief of Police to confer with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and representatives of Harvard and M.I.T. in an attempt to curtail the noise, which it termed "a source of nuisance and severe discomfort...