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Zack Morris, A.C. Slater, Kelly Kapowski, Jessie Spano and, most especially, Lisa Turtle were always the coolest of cool. When Kelly wore tube tops and Zack pegged his jeans, teenage America knew how to follow. Additionally, Zack might have been one of the first people to use a cell phone as an accessory...
...Forget your standard beer pong. Erase mental images of tube-topped Wellesley girls pressed against Mather's steamed windows. Despite occasional party-crashers--French au pairs, a homeless man, a motorcycle clan--Das' affairs remain mellow. At the "Wine and Cheese" parties, tables are garnished with brie, camembert and crackers. "His floor-to-ceiling windows reveal a river view. You walk in, and everyone's dressed well," Helen Springut '03, a regular attendee, describes. "There's a table in the back with wine, and some older guy looks at you and asks, 'Red or White?' " Das' friend, social swinger Paul...
...when our own doctor tells us to get our colon checked, we don't always listen. A year and a half ago, Florence Seguin, 73, of Williamsburg, Va., shrugged off her physician's recommendation that she undergo a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a flexible lighted tube into the colon to look for abnormal growths. A former nun and the adoptive mother of a 13-year-old boy, Seguin knew that one of her brothers had died of colon cancer, but it wasn't until she saw an article about Couric and Monahan that she stopped procrastinating...
...least expensive method--because it's the one most often covered by insurance--make sure you get both parts: a stool test, which looks for the presence of hidden blood, and a flexible sigmoidoscopy, in which a lighted tube is inserted into the lower third of the colon. The stool test should be repeated annually, since only 1 out of 3 tumors bleeds enough to be picked up by the test and then usually only after it's grown in size. The "flex sig" should be performed every five years, provided there's no change in symptoms or family history...
...uncle against the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lazaro Gonzalez claims his six-year-old nephew is capable of applying for asylum in his own right - that neither Elian's father nor the INS has the right to send the boy back to Cuba. Elian was rescued from an inner tube in November after his mother drowned at sea in an ill-fated attempt to reach Miami, and his father, who remained in Cuba, has made repeated pleas for his son to be returned...