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...risk of breast cancer. The jury is still out, but here's some reassurance. A study of 37,000 women found little evidence that estrogen is linked to common types of cancers such as ductal carcinoma in situ (a cancer confined to a duct). It may, however, increase some uncommon forms--but they are slow growing and may be easily treatable...
...find it on the news--and it not be true--is terrifying," she told Los Angeles' KNBC-TV before leaving to join her son and husband in New York City. She said PRINCE had a virus infection, which caused his third febrile seizure this year, a condition not uncommon among young children. At last report Prince was resting in a New York City hotel and, according to his doctor's statement, "showing slow and significant improvement...
...visitors -- perhaps as many as 40,000 -- who will come down with religious delusions when some 4 million Christian pilgrims start converging on the Holy Land for the year 2000 celebrations. The syndrome, in which visitors imagine they are biblical figures and act out their religious visions, is not uncommon in ordinary years. Authorities fear it could become a major problem when 2000 arrives...
...Rudenstine. The process limits the influence of the most qualified judges of candidates, the senior Faculty of their departments. Although the majority of those reviewed by Rudenstine--who is advised by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and five-person ad hoc committee--receive tenure, it is not uncommon for candidates endorsed by their departments to be denied a tenured position. President Rudenstine has an unlimited authority to offer or deny tenure to candidates, regardless of how strong the department's support...
...What is uncommon in my case is the extent of Harvard's disregard of its own rules for tenure review and its flouting of basic requirements of fair process. What also sets my case apart is that a member of the Harvard senior faculty, with imagination, audacity and an unusually lively sense of fair play took an interest in what happened and concluded that something should and could be done about...