Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Alison has decided to leave Howard, I'm starting to think that maybe all this public self-revelation, while promoting honesty and openness, isn't such a good game plan for a relationship. This became clearer as I realized most couples don't leave the Jerry Springer Show with a lot of issue resolution...
...Monday, when asked if he's going to date strippers, Howard, who had promised to have sex with every floozy he ever met the moment his wife died, said, "Obviously, I'm not the type who goes out with bimbos." On Wednesday, he didn't show up for work. Spanking, it seems, is less fun when temptation is replaced by reality...
...problem is, the "cure" for cancer is not going to show up anytime soon--almost certainly not in the next decade. In fact, there may never be a single cure, one drug that will bring every cancer patient back to glowing good health, in part because every type of cancer, from brain to breast to bowel, is different...
...Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. Indeed, if all goes well with current clinical trials, women at high risk for breast cancer will soon be able to be screened with a device that removes a sample of breast cells through the nipple. If any cells show signs of the early mutations that lead to cancer, doctors can suggest the drug tamoxifen, which is believed to reduce the risk of breast cancer by suppressing precancerous cells. Drugs with fewer side effects that can also prevent breast cancer are already in the pipeline...
...going to use cloning to make the whole of the next generation from one individual (though in the 1930s several eminent geneticists thought that when IVF became available, lots of people would rush out to choose prominent men such as Lenin as a father--which just goes to show how wrong geneticists can be about the future). Also, genetic mutations accumulate much too slowly to worry...