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...that has begun to surface at major cancer-treatment centers is not grounded in any hard calculus. Despite some gains, cancer death rates remain unacceptably high (see chart), and the disease will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an extraordinarily rich epoch of scientific discovery that has revealed the innermost secrets of malignant cells and suggested rational strategies for attacking them. "Until we knew what was wrong with the cancer cell," says oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, "we couldn't even think about ways of targeting treatment...
...this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the beach, scientists claim, are innate and universal and involve, among other things, a waist-to-hip ratio of about 0.7, which was apparently taken as a reliable signal of female fertility in the Pleistocene epoch. So if you have any ambition to propagate your genes, this theory goes, you'd better stay in that fitting room until you find something that works...
...bimbo," with its implication that a great bod is incompatible with normal intelligence. Possibly also relevant here is the masochistic T shirt that says SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...
...impoverished city. Syoma, depressed and resigned, told me how twice he had tried to open a small shop and twice had to give up in the face of the mafia's demands, which he was unable to satisfy. He barely got away with his life! This dark and dangerous epoch came to an end in the fall of 1993 with the dramatic and bloody confrontation at the pinnacle of power between the President and the Parliament...
...Walter, and this week's offering, defense attorney Robert Shapiro's The Search for Justice (Warner Books; $24.95), written with Larkin Warren. There are no bombshells here, but both lawyers take the reader on a breathless you-are-there ride, evoking once again all the emotions of that fevered epoch in this country's history. Which emotions, of course, depends on whose Rashomon-like tale you are reading at the time...