Word: lunge
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Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet (Kate Winslet) are children of two different cultures. Juliet's father is an English canon, and the girl is blond, worldly, brash; she was hospitalized for lung disease, and has been brought to New Zealand for the climate. Pauline, whose father manages a fish store, is dark and broody; she has leg scars from the ravages of osteomyelitis. Juliet sees their wounds as badges of spiritual aristocracy: "All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic...
...accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country. The main requirements for success among the neophytes were work in a field unrelated...
...Sasser then turned negative, pointing out that Dr. Frist had masqueraded as a pet lover to get cats from an animal shelter to use in lab experiments, that he had not even registered to vote until six years ago. The Senator pointed to the irony of a heart-and-lung surgeon saying it was up to parents -- not government -- to decide whether children should smoke. He also took Frist's proposal to cut $230 billion from the federal budget and showed that it couldn't be done...
...abortion raised a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer 50% on average. But, as an editorial in the NCI Journal points out, that is just about the smallest risk such a study can detect. (By contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media's caution reflected a pro-choice bias. "Even if you want to say the study is inconclusive, I think women have a right to know," says Paige Cunningham, president of Americans United for Life. "Physicians routinely tell patients about much smaller risks...
...people found that having an abortion may increase a woman's risk of eventually developing breast cancer by 50%. The greatest increase occurred in women who waited until after the eighth week to terminate their pregnancy. By contrast, smokers run a 3,000% increase in their risk of developing lung cancer compared with nonsmokers...