Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forgive my alma mater if the best it can do for a homecoming queen is a student in drag. Wabash, a small, liberal-arts college in Crawfordsville, Ind., is all male--one of only three such schools in the U.S. The student newspaper is called the Bachelor, and freshmen still shout the school song from the chapel steps each fall with more ferocity and face paint than the Scots wore in Braveheart...
Unlike other cancers, lung cancer is extremely hard to detect in its earliest, most treatable stages. Even so, about 20% of lung-cancer patients are found to have a tumor whose biological characteristics and small size give them a good chance of being cured if the malignant growth is surgically removed...
...complex. Currently there's no screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York City and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. It's a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep...
...there's more to View than switchblades and red sauce. Bolcom has refracted Miller's '50s angst through the prism of an unlikely source: Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes, in which a deeply alienated antihero confronts a band of small-minded English villagers who demand his conformity or his life. Incapable of sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas...
...many of the students, maybe less goading and cruelty than people have come to expect from this age, there are a couple of possible reasons. Many of these kids have known one another since grade school, and grown up in a tolerant time. Maybe Columbine taught them something. Maybe small-town, Midwestern kids are just nicer...