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...schools. Superintendent Carlos Hicks asked the local office of Kelly Services to help--and now the employment agency's temps are teaching in 23 states. Kelly screens potential teachers, trains them and provides benefits. Its subs get a premium rate, but administrators say they're worth it. One drawback: now that regular teachers know qualified substitutes can be easily found, absenteeism has increased slightly...
...happy when the last treatment is over. But now a study of 5,500 women shows that more radiation--eight additional sessions--can cut in half the odds that the cancer will recur in the same breast. Younger women show an even greater benefit from the booster dose. A drawback: more radiation may mean a greater chance of breast deformity...
...them at risk for everything from drug abuse to a loveless, solitary old age is more disturbing--and even more debatable. Christy Buchanan, a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University and co-author of Adolescents After Divorce (Harvard), is typical of Wallerstein's detractors. "I think the main drawback of the sort of research she does is that you can't necessarily generalize it to a broad population," Buchanan says. "The other caution I would put forth is that she has a group of divorced families but no comparison group of nondivorced families. [Perhaps in response to this longstanding...
...Hill album, I saw that 31 other people had grown tired of her as well. So I picked a relatively low price of 6 swap points and got an offer the same day. I then used those points to snag a Tracy Chapman CD from someone else. The biggest drawback: because MrSwap sends out a stamped, padded mailer to the seller, who then has to remail it to the buyer, it took nearly two weeks...
...providers use during a Pap smear to check the cervix for signs of abnormal growth before the cells become dangerous.) If there is a problem, so the theory goes, it could be traced to a particular duct, which would then be carefully monitored for signs of malignancy. One major drawback: seemingly abnormal results can be triggered by changes in the breast during pregnancy, breast feeding, certain stages of the menstrual cycle, and menopause...