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...didn't take long for the backlash to begin. Breast-cancer support groups weighed in almost at once. Why, they asked, would an otherwise healthy woman want to take a drug that can cause birth defects, trigger blood clots and double her chance of getting cancer of the uterus? Some questioned the drug's value even for the 29 million American women whose chances of getting breast cancer are, like Helene Wilson's, significantly higher than the 1-in-9 national average. Tamoxifen is already approved as a breast-cancer treatment, so physicians can prescribe it for prevention as well...
...calls it an epidemic. ?If the United States had eight times the rate of disease than other rich nations, the people would be up in arms,? said Dr. Rebecca Peters of Johns Hopkins University. ?This would be a public health emergency.? Whether the guns or the people pulling the trigger are responsible, one thing is clear: We?ve got a whole lot of killing going...
...mother tells her story from her weather-worn mobile home on a dirt road northwest of Jonesboro. Next door is Brand Custom Hauling--the company that employs Gretchen's third husband, Terry Woodard, as a heavy-equipment operator. In the house a bobtailed cat prowls the kitchen counter while Trigger, the pet guinea pig, snoozes in its cage. "The hardest thing for me is that this was the happiest any of us had ever been," says Woodard. On the morning of the shooting, Mitch had sat at her circular kitchen table, slumped in her spindle-back chair, chuckling with...
...house-of-cards residential development called Castle Grande, which Jim McDougal financed through his savings-and-loan, Madison Guaranty. Federal regulators called Castle Grande a sham. Af-ter earning $2 million in commissions and fees for McDougal's associates, it collapsed in 1989 (cost to taxpayers: $4 million), helping trigger the $50 million failure of Madison. In sworn statements to federal regulators, Hillary said she recalled doing little or no work for Castle Grande. In 1988 Castle Grande records were destroyed in what Hillary and her Rose law colleagues later called a housekeeping effort. In 1996 her billing records...
...what extent should we trade off our environment for our economy? How should the advancement of a secular global mentality make room for God? As the world becomes increasingly integrated by technology and communications, these questions will become more relevant. Economic shifts in Kuala Lumpur can, we have seen, trigger shocks in Phoenix. The destruction of Brazil's rain forests may kick off climate changes in North America. The world, as we are constantly reminded by our E-mail, our satellite dishes and our economy, is one interconnected place...