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...studies in the journal Neurology suggest a link between service in the 1991 Gulf War and an increased risk of contracting ALS, the deadly and incurable illness better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The studies used different methods but came to the same conclusion: veterans of the war are at least twice as likely as the rest of the population to develop the degenerative disease before age 45. One suspected culprit is exposure to poisonous sarin...
Could cancer in a child be somehow linked to breast cancer in the mom? That's the strong implication of a study presented last week at the European Cancer Conference in Copenhagen. Tracing the medical histories of 2,600 mothers whose children developed various cancers before age 15, researchers discovered that breast cancer was diagnosed in 95 of the women--30% more than predicted. The earlier the kids got cancer, the greater the danger. Mothers of children who got sick before age 6 had a 50% greater-than-expected risk of getting breast cancer. The risk was higher...
...pass the time, or maybe to break the competitive tension, they fall into the perennial Israeli custom of throwing out names and addresses to find a link. They find some: a barber, a cousin. I don’t take my eyes off the lines and the chief security attendant, except to watch the clock...
...arboretum is also a link in Frederick Law Olmsted’s “Emerald Necklace,” a string of public parks that wind their way around the city...
...lawn, leaving just mud and weeds. My neighbor’s dogs, which number between three and five at any given time and are always of the larger variety, wander around the front yard, growling at passersby. The entire mess is barely contained by an old chain-link fence, over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around her chimney. Her walls are crumbling under the ivy’s grasp...