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...expect a climax of bloody or comic revenge have to settle for hugs and smiles and maybe a tear. To enjoy these films is to get in touch with your inner softie. And that doesn't fit today's jock-and-schlock film climate, where "nice" is the tiniest niche...
...says Dr. Eric Winer, director of breast oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. As a result, most doctors agree that it's prudent to treat all DCIS cases as if they are dangerous. (In the past couple of years, however, some surgeons have started treating the tiniest, least aggressive DCIS lesions by excision alone, forgoing radiation, provided they can get wide, cancer-free margins around the tumor...
...something of an expert on scary disease names. Shortly after giving birth, some switch in your brain opens up a cerebral vat into which you pour the name of every horrific childhood ailment yet discovered. And they stay there, stewing and bubbling over every time your child looks the tiniest...
...order to cause disease, at least 8,000 to 10,000 spores need to lodge deep in the lungs, in the tiniest air sacs known as alveoli. The warm, moist environment, and possibly the concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs, stimulates the bacterium to emerge from its protective spore. As each bacterium reproduces, it releases toxins, which eventually spread throughout the body and destroy tissue and organs...
...Sept. 11 changed the rules: from New York to the tiniest American towns, people began playing the everything-bad-can-happen-to-me game, the instigation of which is the basic objective of terrorism. But at the same time, some New Yorkers, desperate for some shred of comfort, started playing a new version of the old game - I don't work on Wall Street, we told ourselves, I'm not in a tall enough building, and so on. In the media, our inoculation of choice was an old truism: terrorists don't kill their publicists...