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Terada's talents have led some Afro-Am concentrators to recommend that Harvard offer her a junior professorship. Terada, in fact, applied for a junior position here, but could not wait through Harvard's long selection process, and instead accepted a junior professorship with the University of Michigan's English Department...
...resolution would also bind Iraq and Kuwait to settle any outstanding disputes between them by peaceful means. It would recommend recourse to Arab mediation...
...then, aren't American women running en masse to the mammographer's office? Why do less than a third of women over 40 have mammograms every one to two years, as experts recommend? One reason may be lingering fears about radiation exposure. Nowadays, however, mammography doses are about one-tenth of what they were 20 years ago -- less than one receives from cosmic rays on an airplane flight. A more significant factor, says Dr. Sarah Fox, a UCLA professor of family medicine, is "that physicians aren't making the recommendations." Doctors often feel that mammograms are unnecessary for women...
Adding to the confusion on mammography is the unfortunate fact that medicine's powerful professional societies cannot agree on what to recommend. The American Cancer Society urges a mammogram every one or two years for women between ages 40 and 49, and annually thereafter. The American College of Physicians disagrees, claiming that a mammogram is not "cost-effective" for women under 50, since only 20% of malignancies occur in these women...
...AIDS and, most alarmingly, of a woman who claims to have been infected with the virus by her dentist during a tooth extraction. Amid the swelling concern and hyped press, the Centers for Disease Control is considering a controversial shift in policy that for the first time would recommend restrictions on health-care workers infected with the AIDS virus...