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Still, says Dr. William Fair, head of the urology division at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "prostate cancer is beginning to come out of the closet. Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company." Indeed, popular awareness of prostate cancer may now be at a stage similar to that of breast cancer two decades ago, after Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller revealed publicly that they were victims of a cancer that until then had been discussed only in private, and urged women to have mammograms...
...decided whether it will enforce a Europe- wide ban. As many as 20 countries have banned British beef since Wednesday's announcement by the British Health Secretary that 10 deaths may be linked to the consumption of beef that is afflicted with the disease. Thirteen of the fifteen European Union Countries have already banned British meat. Two herds were slaughtered today in France as a measure to prevent the spread of the disease. "Despite some very legitimate concerns, there is an air of panic to this situation," notes Hillenbrand...
...Fifteen years ago, however, the idea of the computer was very different. IBM's original Personal Computer was strictly a business tool. Expensive and terribly overpowered--with a whopping 64 kilobytes of RAM--few people needed the flexibility it offered...
...expressed on Saturday, Feb. 24, is that it is "drawn so broadly that it includes people who do not appear to threaten public safety...effectively painting all sex offenders with the same brush." The result of this flattening of serious distinctions between sex crimes is that sex between a fifteen year-old and her nineteen year-old boyfriend, otherwise known as statutory rape, is held under similarly close scrutiny as the violent rape of a young girl--a ridiculous state of affairs, to say the least...
...realize that the material they were compiling was becoming an indispensable resource for women. As requests for the book flooded in, the founders joked that one day they would sell a million copies. As of last week, the book has sold over four million copies, been translated into fifteen languages, and is a bestseller in 30 countries, with more in the planning stages...