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Cervical cancer kills 5,000 American women a year, and in countries where women do not have easy access to Pap smear tests, papillomavirus-related cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related death...
Early diagnosis is important, and women are recommended to get annual Pap tests, where cells that line the cervix are gently scraped off and examined under a microscope...
...Stars ("Any movie where you throw Jeff Goldblum down a flight of stairs is a good movie"). These references flatter us by confirming that we're the sort of hipsters who would knowingly chuckle at them, that we're the quality audience for quality shows, unlike Hollywood's ordinary pap--an argument tailored to the upscale demographics that programmers covet. What's more, insiderism appeals to, well, insiders, which means attention from colleagues and critics. In its newfound introspection, Hollywood may be talking to itself. The question is whether the rest of us will listen...
Fruit flies and biplanes. Pap smears and CAT scans. Radar and lasers. Insulin, penicillin, LSD and ESP. Artificial hearts. Artificial intelligence. A few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century...
...Greek-American physician George Papanicolaou develops the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical and uterine cancer...