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Even 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...
...represent the truth behind experience. We have faith that these creators can distill the very essence of their age; we expect the quiddity of the object to be revealed. Yet these capsules, because of their quarter-century embalming, take authorship away from the artists. Works of art necessarily undergo change when they are parted from their originators-the time capsule is an extreme case of such a transformation. Time, as a signifier, has taken on greater meaning than the material contents themselves. Antonakos's project implies that time is its own artistic agent, enacting unforseeable changes on the object...
...Carolina hospital decided it would take any necessary measures to ensure the health of an unborn child - including running a drug test on the mother, and reporting those results to the police. Women whose tests were positive could choose to be arrested for providing drugs to a minor or undergo drug addiction treatment. Now, the Court will decide the merit of a case brought in 1993 by 10 women who claimed the drug tests violated their Fourth Amendment protection against "unreasonable searches...
Members of the Army are already undergoing a 90-day education program aimed at rooting out homophobic harassment. Each of the armed services is slated to draw up and conduct similar training. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen deemed the sensitivity sessions necessary last July, when a soldier clubbed Private Barry Winchell to death in Fort Campbell, Ky., after extensively baiting Winchell about his homosexuality. It was not until Feb. 1, however, that Cohen explicitly instructed everyone in the armed services to undergo the training. Cohen has also requested a detailed report to gauge animus against gays in the military...
Beginning in mid-March, Ma Soba, the pan-Asian restaurant that abuts Holyoke Center, will undergo $400,000 worth of renovations, resulting in a shared dining area with two separate counters, one for Ma Soba Express and one for Mamacita Taqueria, said Clarence E. Mah '92, the co-owner...