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...going to the doctor, it is the prostate examination. Routinely recommended for those 50 and over, the procedure calls for a physician to insert a gloved finger into the rectum to probe the chestnut-size prostate gland, which is near the bladder and produces some of the fluids in semen. But however uncomfortable and embarrassing the exam may be, it could be a lifesaver. The rate of prostate cancer in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past several years. It strikes 1 in 11 American males and kills more than 30,000 annually. Prostate cancer ranks second only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Private Pain of Prostate Cancer | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...major element of the controversy over early detection is the test for PSA, a protein that is produced by the prostate and is believed to play a role in preventing semen from coagulating. High levels of PSA in the blood indicate an enlarged prostate, which is common in older men and is only sometimes the result of cancer. Research studies show that 20% to 25% of men with a PSA level between four-billionths and ten-billionths of a gram per milliliter of blood harbor a cancer in their prostate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Private Pain of Prostate Cancer | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...dressed in gargantuan papier-mache costumes that make them resemble dinosaurs from outer space. They sport Iudicrously enlarged phalluses as well as leather, spikes, whips and chains. The band puts on an elaborate stage show, complete with ritual tortures, eviscerations and decaptitations, and squirts gallons of phony blood and semen into the audience. Responding to charges that they are sexist they retorted, "We're also racist...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Guts No Glory | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

...fingerprints were found in the house, on her body or on a murder weapon. He is not even in trouble because someone offered a plausible motive for Coleman's wanting his sister-in-law dead. The case against Coleman is built solely on circumstantial evidence: bits of hair, blood, semen that may be his, but then again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...Given the gory nature of the killing, Coleman's clothes should have been splattered with blood. They weren't. Given his need to get out of the McCoy house -- by the prosecution's own scenario, Coleman showered later, not at the McCoy's -- there should have been traces of semen in his underwear and on his wash cloth. There weren't. The prosecution claimed that Coleman waded through a 10-in.-deep creek, a charge it supported by pointing out that the legs of his jeans were wet. But, observes Coleman's uncle, disabled coal miner Roger Lee Coleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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