Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progressing but often fatal form of B-cell lymphoma, a disease that afflicts the very white blood cells that make antibodies in the first place. Like most patients, she initially responded to chemotherapy. But after each treatment, the cancer recurred. Then three years ago, as her remissions grew ominously shorter, Haut enrolled in an experimental trial of monoclonal-antibody therapy at Michigan. Over the course of five weeks, she received four infusions of antibodies loaded with radioactive iodine. The result? The tumors in her groin, chest and abdomen disappeared, and to this day Haut remains cancer-free. In a recently...
Paltrow is an unusual star for the grunge generation: cheerier attitude, shorter rap sheet. Her parents made sure of that. Says Danner: "I worked with many child actors who unfortunately didn't have childhoods. So the last thing we wanted to do was push our children into acting. We felt that if Gwyneth had talent and wanted a career, eventually it would find her and she would find it." So Gwyneth and her younger sister and brother grew up relatively normally, in Los Angeles and, from the time Gwyneth was 11, in Manhattan, where she attended the exclusive Spence School...
...Confirming suspicions, a study finds that surgery to ENLARGE THE PENIS may be too risky. It involves snipping the ligament holding the penis against the pubic bone and sometimes injecting fat cells. A possible result: poor erections and scarring that pulls the penis back, making it look shorter...
...than focusing the audience's attention on a little examined sense, the nature of sound. "Interval", on the other hand, strips the audience bare of its expectations of cognition and easy assumptions. A video of a man bathing and one of unidentifiable, feral activities are played in alternating, ever shorter segments. Rather than presenting a narrative puzzle for the audience to work on, the piece becomes more incomprehensible the longer it lasts, forcing the audience to accept their experience in sensual rather than intellectual terms. In this sense it succeeds where the ultimately boring "Presence" could...
...worst worry for teenage girls may be worry itself. Anxious girls seem to grow up to be as much as two inches shorter than nonanxious ones, a study suggests. ANXIETY may somehow inhibit the body's production of growth hormone...