Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly blasts government for its half-hearted efforts to fund agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, which try to check pollution and the spread of carcinogens. And he berates the public for persistently ignoring sound advice on how to eat and live healthfully. But he reserves his strongest criticism for industries like the food industry, for its stubborn refusal to stop polluting and tampering chemically with its products. He notes, 'No fewer than 14 of the 16 approved food dyes of 1946 were banned as of 1980 on the ground that they were carcinogens. It seems clear that consumers...
...stayed at was in Santa Monica, which is really just an extension of Los Angeles--everything out there is just an extension of L.A. I didn't get to see much of downtown L.A., but I was told that downtown L.A. doesn't really exist. The city is spread out like a vast semi-subrub. Driving through Los Angeles is like driving through an endless stretch of Somerville; it's noisy and hectic and you keep waiting for the suburbs to appear, but they never do. Everything is made out of stucco. Stucco banks, stucco taco joints, stucco supermarkets...
...compulsories--they have to show each part, and so there are 15 calves bulging out at the crowd, 15 buttocks, now 15 backs, and now 15 chests. And then there is free posing; the boys move through routines they have choreographed, practiced, jealously guarded. There's the double-lat spread, lats being back muscles--from a wide V from your waist to your shoulders. There's the double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your...
...Journal also contained an encouraging report about the effectiveness of chemotherapy after mastectomies. A study of 1,863 women whose cancer had spread beyond the breast revealed that recurrence rates dropped when a chemical called tamoxifen supplemented an established two-drug regimen known as PF (L-phenylalanine mustard and 5-fluorouracil). The effects were most striking in postmenopausal women, a group that in the past did not seem to benefit from chemotherapy. Says the study chairman, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh: "In women over 50 years old with multiple lymph node involvement, 45% will have a reoccurrence...
...cancer research; of cancer; in Vancouver, B.C. An outstanding soccer and basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...