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...technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy 15 minutes...
...after decades of straining, it grows too big to pump blood very well. Fortunately, the abnormal thickening can be spotted by ultrasound. And in most cases, getting that blood pressure under control--through weight loss and exercise or, as a last resort, drug treatment--allows the overworked muscle to shrink to normal size...
...proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine cancer). Then preliminary reports indicated that another drug, raloxifene, might prevent breast cancer without triggering new malignancies. Two weeks later came the Times's report that two new drugs can shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever...
Shunned by the mainstream academic establishment, Paglia does not shrink from shooting back...
...Posterior instability in an athlete is unusual, and in a golfer it's some concern because the ball is sliding backward in the socket," Hawkins said. "We used lasers and heat to shrink it down and try to create some stability. This is a new procedure and without it we would have had to cut into the shoulder...