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...Stone turned The Doors into a display of pop culture's wretched excess. "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death," Morrison wrote when he was a student at the UCLA film school, and The Doors latches onto this fear in the first scene -- when five-year-old Jim sees a car wreck -- and rides the snake right to the end. In between come dozens of set pieces in which Morrison makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy...
Recent research has shown how easy it is for youngsters to stray unwittingly from the truth. Psychologists Karen Saywitz of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Gail Goodman of the State University of New York at Buffalo interviewed 72 girls, ages 5 and 7, about routine medical procedures they had received. Half were given full examinations, including anal and vaginal checks, and the rest were given just general physicals. When the first group was asked a broad question about what had happened, only eight mentioned the vaginal examinations, and when the children were shown anatomically correct dolls, six pointed...
...years, as experts recommend? One reason may be lingering fears about radiation exposure. Nowadays, however, mammography doses are about one-tenth of what they were 20 years ago -- less than one receives from cosmic rays on an airplane flight. A more significant factor, says Dr. Sarah Fox, a UCLA professor of family medicine, is "that physicians aren't making the recommendations." Doctors often feel that mammograms are unnecessary for women who are not in a high-risk category. "Sometimes they'll say, 'You've had a couple of children and you've got no family history, so relax,' " explains...
...launched in 1989, to examine and certify mammography facilities. It advises patients to choose a high-volume accredited facility. Another sign that a mammogram is up to snuff: the ouch factor. To get a good picture, the mammography machine must compress the breast. "If you're not uncomfortable," says UCLA's Fox, "you're probably getting a bad mammogram...
...extra copies are a bad omen. Patients that have them suffer three times the rate of cancer recurrence of other patients, says UCLA oncologist Dr. $ Dennis Slamon. Such patients, he says, should "absolutely" get further treatment. But one genetic abnormality is not enough to transform healthy, law-abiding breast cells into anarchic tumors. "The genes responsible for this disease are like pieces of a patchwork quilt," says geneticist Mary- Claire King of the University of California, Berkeley. The patchwork pattern may vary from one woman to the next, but each case probably involves five or six separate mutations occurring over...