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...malignancies, breast cancer is perhaps the one most feared by women, and with good reason. For one thing, it is the most common form of cancer found in women: about one in ten will eventually be stricken, and the American Cancer Society estimates that 130,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year alone. For another, it will cause approximately 41,000 deaths among females in 1987, second only to a projected total of 44,000 for the less prevalent but deadlier lung cancer. And even when breast cancer is successfully treated, that success is often accompanied by permanent disfigurement...
When the race started in 1977, celebrating the men and dogs who brought life-saving anti-toxin from Anchorage to dipheria-stricken Nome Alaska in 1925, the winner took 21 days to finish. "Everybody says, 'It will never be done in 10 days.' I have shaved off 31 hours [from the previous record]. I think I can shave off two more," Butcher says...
...Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates of the dead rose above 1,000, a shaken President Leon Febres Cordero, fresh from viewing the stricken areas by helicopter, proclaimed, "We are facing the biggest, most profound and complex problem in our history...
Cider is also the catalyst for most of the ridiculous things that happen in this play. He pushes the drunken Jonny into the arms of Mare, who seduces him. Guilt-stricken and distraught, Jonny tries to commit suicide in Cider's presence, but accidentally shoots Cathy's roommate dead and is subsequently sent to prison...
...climbed only 22%. About 15 million U.S. households now pay more than 50% of their total disposable income to service their debt, according to Greenspan. Such payments, he noted, are not a problem unless income suddenly contracts, as it might when layoffs occur during recession. In such a crisis, stricken families can lose their houses, cars and other vital possessions. Many people are making themselves more vulnerable by taking out large home-equity loans. The popularity of such loans has grown enormously under the new tax-reform law, which is phasing out the deductibility of interest payments on most other...