Word: lump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about it. Breast cancer struck the most evident of a woman's assets, where the motherly and the erotic are joined. And treatment of the disease was a nightmare of pain, disfigurement and uncertainty too terrifying to contemplate. A seemingly healthy woman with nothing more than a tiny lump in her breast (and a larger one forming in her throat) could agree to have a biopsy performed and not know whether she would awake from surgery with a small bandage on her breast -- or no breast...
...surgical options have multiplied. Chastened by better educated and more demanding patients, doctors now wait after a positive biopsy to discuss these options before moving in to amputate. Just last year a consensus meeting convened by the National Institutes of Health formally recommended lumpectomy, the removal of a cancerous lump plus a small amount of surrounding tissue, followed by radiation therapy, as an equally effective alternative to breast removal in many cases. And the success rate for treatment is up -- not dramatically, but up. Nowadays, 76.6% of breast-cancer patients survive five years after surgery, and 63% are alive...
...beginning I created the heavens and the earth -- well, almost. I actually started with a lump of molten rock, gave it a hundred million years or so to cool off and then began to form the clear blue oceans and the landmasses that would eventually become continents. After a few billion years had gone by (it seemed like minutes to me), I created the first life-forms and triggered the start of their long evolution. Before I knew it, my world was filled with thousands of self-replicating molecules, millions of one-celled organisms, whole armies of invertebrates, crustaceans...
Start with a lump of rock, add some flora and fauna and before you know it, your little planet's growing out of control. With a program called SimEarth, the whole world's in your hands...
...soon found myself stranded on a deserted road with a sunken car, a lump in my throat and a torn tire. My humiliation only deepened when I had to explain the whole incident to the mechanic at the gas station I had so cockily passed only minutes before...