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...aspirin has a downside. For every 1 or 2 women who were protected from cancer, 8 developed serious gastrointestinal bleeding. Keep in mind that the only way to get the maximum benefit was to take the higher doses of aspirin for at least a decade. Beyond that, Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society says, "We are not even sure which group of people will gain enough benefit to exceed the risks...
...Sihanouk does step down, it may be because he's tired of trying to mediate among his country's warring political factions. "He's upset with the evolution of the country," says Thun Saray, a Cambodian political analyst. Sihanouk, once Cambodia's dominant political force, set up the royalist Funcinpec party now run by his son Prince Norodom Ranariddh, but the prince is not the political operator his father was. Prime Minister Hun Sen is now firmly in control: he overthrew the prince in a 1997 coup and has since won two controversial elections. In August, Hun Sen persuaded Ranariddh...
...epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves and whinnies, shouting villagers, shrieking carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized with a thrill that they were...
...safety of electronic devices, and the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates cell-phone radiation standards. "There is no significant new evidence in the past year that there is need for greater concern than already exists," says Russell Owen, chief of the FDA's Radiation Biology Branch. Concurs Michael Thun, the head of epidemiological research at the American Cancer Society: "If there's a risk [of cancer], it's an exceedingly small...
...sufficiently intrigued by the COX-2 connection that they're trying to determine whether a new generation of seemingly safer drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, can reduce the incidence of cancer among folks with the FAP or HNPCC genes. "It's a very exciting area of research," says Thun. "But it's too early for clinical application...