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Word: fatale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine proves that balloons are the key to a non-surgical procedure which can alleviate often fatal blockages of a valve between chambers of the heart. Blockages, often cause a shortness of breath and fatigue with exertion...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: RESEARCH BRIEFS | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

...treats the romance that grows between Berlin and Helena the same way. They edge toward connection tentatively, in full but unspoken awareness of the difficulties of their relationship. Nor is the suspicion of mad and more deadly passions visited upon either of them in the manner of Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct. Evil is what it is supposed to be in fictions of this kind, an outsider, and the business of the narrative is to restore order in the community that evil has disordered. In other words, Jennifer 8 is adult entertainment in the best, traditional sense of the term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Is an Outsider | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...About 1 million Americans, nearly half of them women, have cardiovascular disease. Of the approximately half a million fatal heart attacks in the U.S. every year, 247,000 occur in women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Killer of Women: Heart Attack | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...widespread misconception that cardiovascular disease is essentially a man's problem stems largely from the fact that heart attacks are rare among pre-menopausal females. Of the quarter of a million fatal heart attacks suffered annually among women, only 6,000 occur in those under the age of 65. Coronary heart disease in women "doesn't take off until menopause," says Dr. Mary-Ann Malloy, a cardiologist at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, "and in the past a woman's life expectancy didn't extend much longer than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Killer of Women: Heart Attack | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...group appeals for money to be spent not on smoking prevention programs, but on issues such as AIDS, homelessness and poverty. In fact, the committee is entirely financed by tobacco industry executives. Their sudden concern for social problems in Massachusetts is just a ploy to divert attention from the fatal dangers of smoking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ayes Have It: Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

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