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Cervical cancer kills 5,000 American women a year, and in countries where women do not have easy access to Pap smear tests, papillomavirus-related cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related death...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Protection: Papillomavirus | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...recent study has shown that testing for HPV directly is more effective in predicting cancer than a Pap smear alone, but tests are not yet widely available...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Protection: Papillomavirus | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...table from Dorothy Coppens, her vibrant 85-year-old mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vision Saver | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...play-by-play while he was producing the piece for us." Bergman insists he didn't start thinking about making the story into a film until after Wallace told him he was about to be fired by Hewitt for having brought Wigand--then the subject of a false smear campaign--to the show in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Truth & Consequences | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...didn't matter. At the time, Crowe was 34 and in fighting trim from playing ice hockey for the film Mystery, Alaska. But Mann had an inkling that Crowe could connect with the whistle blower Wigand at his most depressed and paranoid, when the tobacco industry was trying to smear him, when his marriage was failing, when he was drinking and eating too much. Crowe, without even meeting Wigand, nailed the part in a single reading, says Mann. "He was truly in the moment. In one line of dialogue, I saw Jeffrey Wigand there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Star: Becoming The Insider | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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