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French has been producing comix for nearly ten years, including the series "Grit Bath," "Corny's Fetish," and "The Ninth Gland," all of which are included in this thick black and white collection. Nearly every one of the twenty-odd, short and long stories contain grotesqueries, mutilation, death or all three. What makes her work different from the boring, violent books that crowd the shelves is that she actually gets to the emotional center of what repulses...
...says. "And leptin is necessary for the progression of puberty." Another clue, according to Duke's Freemark, is that overweight girls have more insulin circulating in their blood. Says Freemark: "Those higher levels of insulin appear to stimulate the production of sex hormones from the ovary and the adrenal gland...
...ring circus: Hillary and Rick going for the Senate in one ring, Rudy going for redemption in the next. But first, Giuliani needs to get past the cancer. The mayor still has not chosen a treatment, and the decision is clearly agonizing for him. Surgery to remove the prostate gland offers the best chance of eliminating the disease but carries a risk of impotence and incontinence. An alternative treatment--implanting tiny radioactive "seeds"--has less risk of side effects but doesn't always eradicate the cancer. "I find myself unable to make the treatment decision yet," Giuliani confessed Friday. After...
...prolong the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer. A small but significant study shows that men whose cancer has spread to their lymph nodes are five times as likely to survive if they're castrated--chemically, with medication, or surgically, by removing the testes--soon after the prostate gland is removed. Most doctors hold off, sometimes for years, in part because of the heavy consequences: libido usually plummets, and many men experience hot flashes, muscle loss and fatigue. These may be a small price to pay for survival...
Wilmut cloned "Dolly," a Finn Dorset lamb named after Dolly Parton, in 1996. The original cell was taken from a mammary gland...