Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fold first. Thus they prolonged the war and added to the human cost they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting the enemy was a frequent charge against the antiwar movement during Vietnam. Today, when almost nobody denies that Vietnam really was a quagmire, the only argument left against those who called it a quagmire at the time is that they were responsible for making...
...first officer on the scene is Masino, whose wife had not wanted him on the street today. He kicks a hole in the passenger window, unlocks the door and tries to revive Atkinson with help from another officer. She is Patricia Johnson, Atkinson's best friend on the force--the one who had lent him the book on street survival. Atkinson has taken two bullets in the right side of his head. Says Masino, 28: "It's almost like Marc's spirit was standing there next...
...Willis' What I Deserve is, so far, the smartest, most consistently worthwhile country CD released this year--but if you're talking young, if you're talking sexy, spunky and--how cool is this?--married, McGraw, 32, and Hill, 31, are it. They are the Tom and Nicole of today's country music (fully clothed, of course). Hill's sunny third CD, Faith (Warner Bros.), has gone double platinum and spawned the hit single This Kiss. McGraw's new album, the amiable A Place in the Sun, debuted at No. 1 on the pop chart, and is still going strong...
...years ago there wasn't a pill in the world that had been proved to reduce a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. Today there are two: tamoxifen, which doctors have used for more than 25 years to treat breast tumors after they have formed; and raloxifene, a newer drug that was originally designed to prevent osteoporosis but that, according to a study in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, may also afford some protection against breast cancer...
...more time in the hospital for recovery after giving birth. A government report--the first since the public outcry over "drive-by deliveries"--finds that the average hospital stay for a vaginal delivery has inched up about half a day, from 1.7 days in 1995 to 2.1 today. That's still something of a bum's rush compared with 1980, when the average time in the hospital was 3.2 days...