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...incidence of cervical cancer has not matched the rise in HPV cases. But that is little comfort: there may be a latent period of five to 40 years before virus-associated cancers appear. Clinics are already seeing an increase of young women with Pap tests that show HPV-linked cervical dysplasia. These tissue abnormalities sometimes mean the cells are becoming malignant. Some researchers think HPV is involved in as many as 90% to 95% of all cases of dysplasia and cancer of the cervix...
...years and others who had encountered the former Privolnoye farm boy on his remarkable journey to the Kremlin's top job. As the correspondents filed their reports, Managing Editor Henry Muller was impressed with the amount of new information they had uncovered about Gorbachev's early life and his rise through the party ranks. "For years editors have been saying that you could produce a book from the reporting that goes into some of our cover stories," says Muller. "That was certainly true with Gorbachev, so we thought we would give...
...costs, which account for 85% of its spending. Critics fault Tisch for not driving a tough enough bargain in negotiations last year with the unions representing 634,000 postal employees. Under the new contract, the average salary of those workers who are covered -- about $25,200 last year -- will rise some 7% by November 1990, not including cost-of-living adjustments. Tisch could have insisted that more of the work force consist of lower-paid, part-time employees. Instead, the Postal Service left in place guarantees that 90% of the employees will be permanent full-time workers...
Eric Ramirez, president of the Social Christian Party, said, "It is a positive effort. Hopefully, it will contribute to ending the war and to the rise of the democratization of Nicaragua...
Oppressive poverty, political repression, lack of medical care, and the excessive concentration of power and wealth in a few hands are conditions which have given rise to rebellion throughout the region. Yes, Republicans have deferred attention from these pressing problems by favoring military aid and quick troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...