Word: simonal
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...screening, say experts, many patients opt out of the controversy altogether, preferring to forgo testing than wade through the confusing information and options presented to them. So, says Dr. George Sledge, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a professor of medicine at Indiana University's Simon Cancer Center, it's worth remembering that "the core issue is that screening mammography reduces breast-cancer mortality. And that is unchanged by this report...
...ridden bikes since I was 18 or 19. It's my main passion. I'd read a book by Ted Simon called Jupiter's Travels about his round-the-world trip in the 1970s, and I was so moved by his experience I set about organizing a trip with my friend Charley Boorman. We made a series called Long Way Round, one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life...
...NEIL SIMON, American playwright, after a revival of his play Brighton Beach Memoirs closed a week after it opened...
...makes sense, given that their vocation requires them to be as intimate with words as a carpenter with wood. It is the most immediate pleasure of a reading, the way the sound of an instrument pleases more immediately than the composer’s melody. I remember, when Simon Armitage read in Houghton Library earlier this semester, sitting in rapt attention to a repetitive poem (that I would have probably rushed through had I been reading it) simply by virtue the sound of his voice. I ended up savoring the repetition because he recited it so beautifully. Seamus Heaney?...
...Carrie Underwood was making her seemingly untrammeled run to victory on the fourth season of “American Idol,” judge Simon Cowell famously predicted that not only would Underwood go on to win the competition, but she would also outsell all previous “Idol” winners. The next three years made Cowell appear remarkably astute. As Ruben Studdard and Fantasia Barrino fell by the wayside, and Kelly Clarkson grappled with artistic—and perhaps just general—confusion, Underwood’s first two albums established her as Nashville?...