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...question is why. Most experts on the disease agree that part of the increase can be attributed to earlier detection of tumors. Some 65% of American women over 40 have had a mammogram, up from about 20% in 1979. The widespread use of this tool, a low-dose X ray of the breasts, has meant that more women are discovering their tumors in the early stages, before a lump can be felt. In past decades, prior to the spread of mammography, such women might have died of other causes before their breast cancer was diagnosed...
Bush spent hours in Paris patiently listening as the reborn international consortium, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, debated the structure and methods for preserving peace in the years beyond the cold war. When he talked, Bush emphasized the threat of war in the Persian Gulf, a dose of reality for a city of countless dreams, many of them shattered...
...successor brings a fresh dose of glamour to the usually staid book- publishing world: Evans and his wife Tina Brown, another transplanted Brit, who edits Vanity Fair magazine, are among Manhattan's most prominent and influential media couples. Evans also brings to the job an exuberant and aggressive style. At the London Sunday Times he established an investigative team that uncovered the Kim Philby spy scandal and exposed the dangers of thalidomide. After moving to the U.S. in 1984, he took over Atlantic Monthly press (his only previous book-publishing job) and later U.S. News and World Report. Since...
...Nasty Girl has perhaps allowed a gifted filmmaker to shake and break the bones of a family skeleton as well as a national one. German moviegoers have taken The Nasty Girl as if it were good medicine; they have made it a big homeland hit. But to Americans, the dose will taste like sugar candy with magical nutrients. Rarely does a history lesson evoke a 95-minute smile. This one does...
...hackberry tree. At noon dinner he loaded up his plate with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and took a seat with a cousin on the back porch. Wes cleaned his plate. His cousin did not. Aunt Ida came inspecting. She spied the wasted food, stopped and delivered a stern dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans...