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Even if gene screening remains inconclusive, not everyone wants to toss the tests aside. High-risk women who have had preemptive mastectomies may not regret the decision, since the procedure can mean a 91% likelihood of remaining cancer free--attractive odds in families in which female relatives have repeatedly been claimed by the disease. Even women with a more benign genetic legacy may appreciate the increased knowledge that comes from a positive test and whatever relief comes from a negative one. For now, researchers say, the key may be to look at genetic testing not as firm forecasting...
...Kadden's garb thought that her stretched-to-the-breaking-point leggings were actually panty hose, a Harrods spokesman said. Nor does the Knightsbridge store see the point in Kadden's claim that, as a Harrods purchase, the $100 offending leggings should have rendered her immune from getting the toss. Sniffed the Harrods spokesman: "We sell beds, but we don't let people use them (in the store...
...unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live. I'm going to leave him in his own dust...
...Thing tend to drag. But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps. The title track is the headiest moment; when Hooker sings, "I'm gonna live for the future/ not the past," using that rumbling, Richter-scale voice to toss off decades of heartbreak, the listener is touched with a redemptive awe. Hooker is 79 years old now, and has all but stopped touring. "I'll go out once in a while," he says. "I've paid my dues." Paid in full. Just one spin of Don't Look Back should convince...
...because women can have babies past their prime, just like men, does it mean they should abuse the privilege, just like men? Why not adopt an older child? Isn't having a baby so late selfish--especially if both are codgers--robbing a child of parents who can toss a ball and chaperone the camping trip...