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...benefit from such a blood test will be the 5 million to 10 million Americans who are now considered to be at an increased risk of colon cancer because of a strong family history (usually defined as having three or more relatives with the disease, one of them stricken before age 50). The test could cost $300 a family, according to Vogelstein. About three-fourths of family members will learn that they do not carry the gene. That does not means that they are immune to colon cancer, just that they bear an average risk (a 1-in-20 chance...
...works simply as vehicles for political dissent disappoint Duong. She has written a novel of disillusionment--not only with the corruption and ironies of the Communist Party and society, but also disillusionment with the strength of blood ties so embryonic to Vietnamese culture, with childhood on the poverty-stricken outskirts of Hanoi, with women's sacrifices, and with life. An intensely moving novel, Paradise transcends the boundaries of its setting...
...death moved even hardened veterans of the antiapartheid movement to tears. Nelson Mandela's estranged wife Winnie, one of Hani's closest colleagues, broke into sobs as she visited the crime scene. Joe Slovo, who handed control of South Africa's Communist Party to Hani in 1991 after being stricken with cancer, told a radio station in a trembling voice that he was "shocked and shaken" and needed "time to collect my thoughts...
...example, in the capital of famine-stricken Ethiopia, Adis Abeba, children under one are being immunized at a higher rate than are infants in New York City or Washington D.C., he said...
...United Nations rescue convoys were well meant. But twice last week as the trucks lined up in Srebrenica to take on board their pathetic cargo, survival instincts got the better of a panic-stricken populace. Desperate to escape the encircled city where 60,000 Muslims have been trapped by the Bosnian Serb offensive, they stormed the transports. At least four, probably more, died in the stampedes and harried U.N. officials, already accused of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, called off further convoys until new security measures could be put in place...