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...takes a particularly skilled radiologist to do a Mammotome on smaller breasts like mine. If I hadn't found such a radiologist, I might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local anesthetic, I lay facedown on an examining table with a hole in it for my left breast. Then my physician, Dr. Joshua Gross of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, a leading expert on Mammotomes, located the calcifications with a digital X ray. Through an incision no bigger than a match...
...Killeen, Christians howl in protest. "We believe they are satanic and that they do not deserve to have any place at Fort Hood," says the Rev. Jack Harvey of the local Tabernacle Baptist Church, which sponsored a letter-writing campaign against the Wiccans. "Eighty percent of my congregation is military, and they are appalled...
Luckily, getting those other opinions paid off. I discovered that I didn't need a local excisional biopsy after all. Instead, I was a candidate for a kind of minimally invasive breast biopsy called a Mammotome. At least a quarter of all hospitals and breast centers nationwide are equipped to perform Mammotomes or similar procedures. Why hadn't anyone told...
...only problem I ran into came from clueless photo finishers. My local photo store claimed it sold Picture CD, but it turned out I was being offered another Kodak service, called Photo CD--a photos-to-disc process geared toward professionals that has been around for seven years, costs more than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing...
Until 1996, U.C. Irvine relied on affirmative action to keep its conscience clear. The programmed trickle of acceptances helped 5% of local Hispanic students get into the U.C. campus. It was politically correct but mostly cosmetic. Stephen Carroll, a senior researcher at the Rand Corp., notes that percentages of blacks and Hispanics on California college campuses actually dropped under the old policy: "I am skeptical that affirmative action accomplished a heck of a lot for minorities." Even defenders concede its faults. "I think it was coming close to leading us to a quota system," says U.C. Irvine chancellor Ralph Cicerone...