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...unaffected breast as well. Cancer detected in one breast has a tendency to spread to the other, healthy breast, and an increasing number of women are choosing to excise the unaffected breast, just to be safe. Numerous studies have documented the reduction in breast-cancer recurrence in women who elect to remove both breasts, but until now, no studies had confirmed that this decision actually increases a woman's overall chance of survival...
...Council also voted unanimously to elect Councillor Henrietta J. Davis as vice mayor...
...once protected it from hurricanes continue to melt into the Gulf. But the Lombardi Gras felt like a new beginning for a who-dat city of underdogs--especially coming just days after its black and white residents came together to install new adult leadership in the form of Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu. Maybe he can combine the bold vision of Saints coach Sean Payton with the brilliant execution of quarterback Drew Brees. It won't mean much if the next storm wipes it all away. What New Orleans still needs most is what carried the Saints to victory: a strong...
That is not the only difference between then and now. As President-elect, Obama extended to the outgoing Bush Administration a statesmanlike cooperation that was the exact opposite of Roosevelt's politically shrewd distancing of himself from his discredited predecessor, Herbert Hoover. Obama could have scored cheap political points by leaving such criminally mismanaged enterprises as AIG and GM to their fate. Of course, he might also have touched off an economic smashup. In pursuing what he believed to be the responsible course, Obama echoed George W. Bush's fourth-quarter abandonment of free-market gospel. For both men, survival...
...recent meetings, councillors have acknowledged that it is crucial to elect a mayor, as he or she would be responsible for appointing chairpersons of other government committees. Councillors have also repeatedly alluded to the mayor’s responsibility of chairing the Cambridge School Committee...