Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University grants honorary degrees to nine old men and one old woman, as usual. No one recognizes any of the names but everyone is very impressed...
Whatever their age, women with small tumors that have not invaded the lymph nodes have a 90% chance of surviving at least five years. As the disease spreads, however, the odds of survival drop sharply. Thus cancer experts agree that a woman's best hope for a cure, whatever her age, lies in finding tumors early. Mammography can detect tumors as small as an eighth of an inch in diameter. By contrast, most cancers detected by patients themselves are at least half an inch in diameter, and have been growing for eight to ten years, says Dr. Ferris Hall...
...appropriate." Individual women may respond differently to the question than medical researchers do. Cost effectiveness is not something that most patients want to hear about, particularly when the money is being spent to prevent cancer. Ultimately, the responsibility for providing accurate information on breast cancer may lie with a woman's physician. And any doctor should be prepared to lay out the facts so that patients can decide for themselves about mammography...
...appeal went unheeded. Two days after the Milltown attack, a 21-year-old Protestant woman, with no known connections to the security forces, was shot dead near the Irish border on Friday. Her 24-year-old boyfriend was wounded in the same attack. The IRA has claimed responsibility for the shootings. An even uglier incident soon followed. On Saturday, during the funeral procession for one of the Milltown cemetery victims, an angry crowd of mourners spotted two British undercover agents desperately trying to maneuver their car out of trouble. They were pulled from their vehicle, disarmed, stripped, beaten savagely, dragged...
Even as harmony flowed out of Mamelodi, it was overshadowed by conflict. The executions of five black men and a black woman were stayed for at least one month by the Supreme Court only 15 hours before the hangings were to take place. The court said there was new evidence of possible perjury by a key state witness in the case of the so-called Sharpeville Six. The six were convicted in connection with the 1984 killing of a councilman in the black township of Sharpeville, even though they were not found to have had a direct role...