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About an hour later, two U.S. F-15 fighter jets took off from another Turkish base, bound for the same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed...
...does against uterine cancer. In fact, it appears that the combined hormones may put women at a higher risk for breast cancer than estrogen alone. This bad news came in the wake of an alarming report in May suggesting that long-term use of estrogen heightens the risk of fatal ovarian cancer...
...risk of breast cancer and other malignancies. And the longer estrogen is taken, the greater the risks. For instance, a study of 240,000 women sponsored by the American Cancer Society found that those who took estrogen for at least six years had a 40% increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer. For those taking estrogen for 11 or more years, the increase jumped...
...Algerian war stumbles blindly to a close, its fatal chaos is felt back home, where tragedy mixes with the melodrama that informs a teenager's every waking moment. Brains, groins, hearts-all work overtime in Francois, MiIte and their friends; they face their glandular convulsions with a wonderful seriousness. Swathing them in the sunlight and streams of Provence, Tachina treats all the kids (and their teachers) with affection and respect. He knows that for these handsome idealists, love is as important as sex. They are defining their blossoming identities by discovering the people they can't live without...
Even in successful times, however, the Crimson displayed an inability to close out tight games that would prove fatal to its season...