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...genetically predisposed to develop breast cancer. A woman whose mother or sister had the disease before menopause has five to six times the usual risk of developing it. If either one had the disease in both breasts, then the woman's risk is five to 10 times the norm...
...postseason bowls have proliferated to 19, such major corporate tie-ins have begun to be the norm. Among them: the Federal Express Orange Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl, Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl and Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl. In El Paso sports reporters and other locals persisted in calling the John Hancock Sun Bowl by its old name, the Sun Bowl. So last year the insurance company got the name changed. Now it is officially the John Hancock Bowl...
...into the context of national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system. "I cannot imagine a new Stalinist dictatorship," Smith says. He can imagine, with equanimity, a Soviet Union that reorganizes itself after spinning off the Baltic states...
...killings in Montreal were not random, nor were they isolated. That unusually well-publicized bloodshed was just one expression of a pervasive norm of violence against women. Although the brutal slaying of 14 women may seem like an extreme form of violence, it is not more extreme than the wife-beating, child sexual abuse and rape that make up the fabric of daily life but don't often make the nightly news...
Legacy status is just a tie-breaker. Before The Crimson obtained information to the contrary, Harvard officials (including President Derek C. Bok) stated that legacy status was only used to break a tie between otherwise equally qualified candidates. Harvard explained legacies' disproportionate rate of admission (about three times the norm) by pointing out that children of Harvard alumni were likely to have been raised in an environment conducive to educational attainment. Now we know that the average admitted legacy is not more qualified, or even equally qualified, but less qualified than the average admitted non-legacy...