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...Drug Administration (FDA) last week reviewed new safety data on saline implants, which were approved by the FDA only two years ago. (Silicone-gel implants were never formally approved and are now available only in medical studies.) The review is timely. More than 200,000 women went under the knife last year to acquire bigger breasts. That's five times the number a decade ago. And 80,000 had implants after mastectomies. What could be worrisome about a sac of salt water? Plenty, according to the FDA hearings: more than 40% of women with saline implants return to the operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Implants: How Safe? | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...HUPD officers responded to a fight in progress at Au Bon Pain, where the suspect was reportedly brandishing a knife. Officers arrested 49-year-old Kevin Shea of Cambridge for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and for disorderly conduct...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...years, went to the Los Angeles airport last week with the intent to kill. Especially this year, when terrorist fireworks for the Fourth of July were being imagined in every crowded place, no ordinary traveler would show up at any U.S. airport carrying two handguns, a 6-in. hunting knife and a supply of fresh ammunition. Hadayet's attack left two dead and at least three wounded before he was gunned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airport Security: Firing on the Fourth | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...says, his home "was a violent hellhole." Like his parents, he had volatile relationships. In 1979, he hit his girlfriend, an older divorce named Toni Herring. Yoder says he gave her "a garden-variety black eye," but prosecutors said he broke her orbital bone. After confronting her with a knife while on probation, Yoder got four years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call Him Crazy | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...psychiatrist's report portrays Yoder as a heartsick young man who "desperately wanted to re-establish his relationship" at the time of the crime. The report says Yoder had been guzzling Canadian Club and tripping on two hits of acid when he went to Herring's house with the knife. The psychiatrist noted that after his arrest, Yoder was sexually assaulted in jail and twice tried to commit suicide--once by drinking Clorox. And the report says Yoder wrote threatening letters as "an expression of his despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call Him Crazy | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

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