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...picture may not be quite so grim as it seems, however. For one thing, although the study was large--drawing from a pool of 46,355 postmenopausal women--the number of women on combined estrogen and progestin therapy was comparatively modest. For another, the rise in risk only became striking after four or more years of continuous hormone use, which further reduced the pool of subjects. In the end, out of a total of 2,082 cases of breast cancer, 101 occurred among women who were currently taking estrogen-progestin--and of these, a striking 39 occurred among the roughly...
...didn't come up to me and say it," Chandler said. "He's pretty modest about...
...that no one worries about the potentially disastrous results of unchecked financial exuberance - least of all Greenspan, who has been raising interest rates steadily to prevent things from overheating. And, in fact, the modest increases of one half or one quarter percent are a constant reminder that an eventual downturn is not only a possibility but a certainty. "Everything that I've read suggests the economy will cool off this year," says TIME economics writer Frank Gibney...
...Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars and is shown in museums across the country. For the first time, Dial is financially comfortable. A man of few words, he acknowledges a modest pride: "It makes me feel good when somebody walks up and looks at a piece." But success has not slaked his thirst to create. "He's never short of things to say [through art]," says Kogan. "What a blessing to have ideas and not be dried up and to feel...
DotComGuy is more modest about his life as a homebound professional consumer. The idea came to him last year when he found himself growing restless during a shopping trip with his parents. "I'm fed up with this," he told them. Hoping that people will "learn from my experience," he leads a rich, if isolated life, with regular visits from an aerobics trainer to keep him from physically merging with his couch (bought online, of course). "I was able to go shopping in bed last night," he says. How long voyeurs will be willing to log on and watch...