Word: woman
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...That reduction, it should be noted, is relative, not absolute. The absolute risk of breast-cancer death after age 40 is 3% without annual screening, according to the computer models. That means that with routine screening, which leads to a 15% lower risk of death from breast cancer, a woman's absolute risk drops to 2.6%. Small numbers in either case. Put another way, the panel concluded, the benefit of routine mammograms for women in their 40s is one fewer death for every 1,904 women screened annually for up to a decade...
Pieces in the exhibit offer perspectives on pain, escape, truth, or humor. One print, Sandra Ramos’ “The Damned Circumstances of Water Everywhere,” depicts a near-naked woman lounging in a shape identical to the island nation. The piece depicts the close connection between the artists and their homeland as well as, the title implies, the isolation that some of the country’s artists might feel. Another of the exhibition’s pieces, Belkis Ayon’s “Resurrection,” shows a head with only...
...realized this yesterday, when I had a panic attack. Twice, on my way to the Quad, I swiveled around on Garden Street, certain someone was calling my name. “Hey Asli,” I heard. It was a woman. Maybe she was calling, “Hey, ask me!” or “Hey, Ashley,” I thought. There aren’t many Aslis wandering around New England, after all. But no one was there...
...Women” will be sorely disappointed; instead, there are usually pictures of bikinis with breasts in them and accompanying articles about how to meet those breasts. And any sections labeled “Sex” will almost always be about how the man can tell the woman how to make him feel good. The ultimate message sent to women is that their desires are at best secondary to their man’s and at worst essentially nonexistent—or at least not important...
...Ashton roundly rejected claims that she had been catapulted from obscurity to meet the E.U.'s demands for a token, center-left woman. "Am I an ego on legs? No, I'm not," she said. "Judge me on what I do, and I think you'll be proud...