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...Toniolo: Ovarian cancer tends to occur in middle and old age. But risk factors, like menstrual cycles or endometriosis, occur when women are younger. And as far as diagnosis goes, there are some blood tests that look promising but aren't completely proven as a screening tool. An average woman [with no enhanced risk factors, like a family history of ovarian cancer] should talk to her doctor to assess her risk...
...question becomes, are you willing to take a risk to appoint someone younger who is a world-class but maybe not world-known scholar?," MacFarquhar says. "I think Harvard tends to be risk-averse because we are claiming to hire the best...
Meanwhile, his younger teammates were having career nights in the 93-84 win over the Big Red. Sophomore guard Pat Harvey, breaking out of a horrific slump over the past few weeks, embarrassed his defenders by going 6-of-6 from three-point land and picking up a career-best 26 points...
...scandal engulfs another Rodham, the genial, decent one, Hillary's younger brother, known as Hughie. A near constant presence in the Clintons' lives since he and brother Tony tagged along on their 1975 honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby...
BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT Talking to your infant is good, but uttering individual words might be better. According to a study by a professor at Washington University, children younger than 15 months learn words like kitty, red or come more quickly when their parents say them frequently and by themselves. Such isolated words form the foundation for early vocabulary learning. The study challenges recent theories that infants learn language by hearing sentences and segmenting them into individual words...