Word: lump
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Almost all of the cosmic matter that survives to hit the Earth is nothing more than a curiosity. A mysterious lump of iron is found in a cornfield; a twenty-two pound rock appears amid the demolished trunk of a car in Peekskill, New York just last year. The Harvard Geological Museum contains dozens of examples, carefully classified by composition, ranging from a few ounces to over a hundred pounds...
...also lost a child, her firstborn, in an accident. For decades she has told no one, not even her other children, and she cannot bring herself to tell Caldwell's character at the moment when it would most comfort both of them. She does at last acknowledge the undiagnosed lump growing in her breast and the not-so-secret mistress installed by her husband in a pricey condominium. The play is about the women's coping, not their chaos...
Radical mastectomy was once standard treatment for even localized breast cancer, but a new study shows that lumpectomy, a procedure in which only the cancerous lump is removed, can be nearly as effective when combined with radiation...
...part of the agreement, the ART receives free use of the Loeb for professional theatrical productions as well as an annual lump-sum payment earmarked for undergraduate theater production--which usually amounts to about a half-million dollars...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...