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...should they be? The reports were based on studies under way at the Food and Drug Administration. Scientists there had found that the polyurethane foam coating surrounding the Meme and Replicon brands of implants could break down in the body into a substance called 2-toluene diamine, or TDA. This chemical had been shown to cause liver cancer in laboratory rats. The most alarming news reports claimed that TDA could trigger cancer in as many as 4 in 10,000 women who received the implants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Bombs in the Breasts? | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...some t'ings dey shouldna got but we like dem quand-meme: like Corona beer ($2.50) . . . Ooo-wee! You squeeze dat lime and glug-glug-glug! You ain't tasted nothin' better! Rien!. . . and Hurricanes ($2.95). . . Cay-john as Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

Plus ca change. plus c'est la meme chose! Anne Tait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plus ca change | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...backfield since the late '50's, was embarrassed by weak neighbor Rhode Island, 35-21--only the eighth time that has happened in 57 years. Columbia's best team since 1961 was shut out by Lafayette, 3-0. And so it went. Plus ca change, plus c'cst la meme chose...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 9/29/1971 | See Source »

...Meme Chose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scholars Assess Impact of de Gaulle Death | 11/12/1970 | See Source »

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