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...women and their doctors, early detection of breast cancer has always had a crapshoot quality to it. Regular mammograms seem like a wise precaution, but the tests may be expensive and unreliable--and in a very small number of cases, may actually help stir up the very disease they're designed to spot. Neglecting mammography can be even riskier, giving an incipient tumor a chance to take hold and grow. This year the confusion only increased, with the medical community clamoring for clarity just as various cancer advisory groups issued conflicting guidelines...
...members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink the vodka mixture, and then lay back and relax. Unlike many cult-related mass suicides in history, such as the People's Temple in Guyana, police say every member of the Heaven's Gate cult willingly died. The deaths proceeded...
...addition to their brains, the nuns have provided Snowdon with a wealth of biochemical and behavioral information-- blood samples, test scores and even autobiographical sketches written in their teens and 20s. Last year, Snowdon and his colleagues caused a stir when they found a tantalizing if tenuous connection between the nuns' schoolgirl writing styles and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's later on. Out of a group of 25 nuns who died between 1991 and 1995, the researchers reported, those whose writing samples contained the lowest density of ideas per paragraph were the most likely to develop Alzheimer's. Could...
There were, of course, many distinctions based on race, including the segregated schools that some of Lott's friends came to see as unjust. But Lott had enough trouble at home; he didn't need to stir up any more if it could be avoided. And in Pascagoula, it could. Most of his white classmates could say, as Lott does, that "race just wasn't that big an issue for me growing...
...never eaten at Tommy's and doesn't take it into account when setting prices, but it's hard to know for sure that he isn't just being political. So I push him once more, asking about Pizzeria Uno's, California Pizza Kitchen and Bertucci's, hoping to stir up some anti-franchise zeal. But he has no unkind words about corporate pizza either, or at least resists the temptation to lash out against it. Frustrated as I am, I start to get consumed by the smell so I thank him and leave...