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Survival rates for men and women are similar, adjusting for stage of the disease at diagnosis - but men are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. That's probably because women undergo regular screening, Korde says. In men, "because it's not on their radar, [a lump] might not be something they get seen immediately." In men, as in women, treatment usually includes surgery followed by some combination of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and - because almost all men with breast cancer have tumors characterized as hormone-receptor-positive - hormone treatment...
...Zhang has brought plenty of pop sensibility to his calling. Aside from abridging traditional storylines, he has experimented with modern plots, adapting a short story by early 20th century writer Lu Xun. The singing is also faster and the traditionally empty stage is now filled with backdrops and props (classical Kunqu required audiences to simply imagine the scene according to cues in the lyrics). A new breed of younger artists has also been cast in plum roles, which by tradition were always reserved for veteran performers. Prominent among the fresh faces is Zhang himself. The onetime rapper played Emperor Minghuang...
...convinced either. "The true beauty of Kunqu is in its singing, as well as the extreme simplicity in its props," says Wen Jingya, of Peking University's Kunqu club. "In a garden scene, there is no garden, everything is in the imagination. It's distracting when you see a stage filled with sets...
...what's better, an empty stage or a full house? Ex-director Cai, who can point to a 50-year involvement with Kunqu, has no doubts. "Kunqu has to develop under a different social environment to survive," he says. Adapting old works to attract new fans is "exactly what I hope for the future...
...peaceful evacuation of a large number of people indeed has been smooth, and firefighters have been able to stage both ground and air assaults on the fires despite heavy winds. Still, the steady, frustrating and unpredictable advance of the fire shows that even the best-laid plans are no match for the fierce force of nature. In this case, the foe was not just fire, but its ally, wind, specifically the type known in Southern California as a Santa Ana, which blows hot and hard from the desert, often in October, when the dry, arid region is at its most...