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...breast cancer, according to a new report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. An increasing number of doctors are giving the hormone to older women because ofits ability to strengthen bones and ward off heart trouble. But the new findings suggest such benefits may come at a steep price. Several earlier studies had indicated a link between estrogen and breast cancer, butthis is the largest survey yet, based on results from the Nurses Health Study, which has followed 121,700 women nurses since 1972. While the new findings are significant, TIME science reporter Alice Park says they...
...about 2 p.m. on June 24, 1994, a B-52 bomber took off from Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State to practice air-show maneuvers. Barely 15 minutes later, while attempting to circle the runway's control tower in a steep turn, it crashed at 170 m.p.h., narrowly missing nuclear weapons bunkers and a crowded airmen's school. No one had wanted to fly with the pilot-Lieut. Colonel Arthur Holland, a 24-year veteran about to retire. Indeed, two of the three other officers killed with Holland were there because their subordinates feared flying with...
...great deal about Ramesses and the customs of his day. But the newly explored tomb suddenly presents scholars with all sorts of puzzles to ponder. For one thing, many of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings are syringe-like, plunging straight as a needle into the steep hillsides. For reasons nobody yet knows, says Weeks, this one "is more like an octopus, with a body surrounded by tentacles...
...straightened but in parts was still lined by ditches and fruit trees. We looked for the valley where the hospital train had been shelled and, halfway through our journey, came on a place I thought resembled it: the railway track was there, though the slope was not nearly as steep as my child's memory had recorded. Other landmarks from the past must have been there; I spotted none but nonetheless felt oddly content just to be on the road I had first traveled so long...
...main reason is that lenders and potential partners worry that the company could be caught in an auto-industry downturn that would slash profits and the value of their investments. Chrysler recently reported first-quarter earnings of $592 million, down a steep 36% from the same period a year ago. Further declines in business could hit Chrysler particularly hard under the plan advanced by Kerkorian, which would load up the company with $10.7 billion of new debt while draining $5 billion from its $7.5 billion of cash reserves to help pay for the buyout. Chrysler has done its part...