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WOMEN HAVE BEEN TOLD FOR YEARS THAT ONE WAY to reduce the risk of breast cancer is to eat the right diet: plenty of fiber, not too much fat. But a major new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says it ain't necessarily so. After keeping tabs on nearly 90,000 women for eight years, doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and other institutions found no evidence for the assertion. Earlier studies had pointed to the same conclusion, but diehards still think the link may exist. They point out that...
...suspect was walking on Plympton Street, he bumped into the student and grabbed her breast with his left hand," said Harvard University Police Department Chief Paul E. Johnson...
...this year, after countless breast-beating symposiums and innumerable studies about fairness, millions of Americans remain passionately resentful of what they consider a marked liberal bias. While few reporters will acknowledge the facts publicly, it is widely admitted in private that many journalists covering Bill Clinton feel generational affinity and unusual warmth toward him -- and that much of the White House press corps disdains President Bush and all his works. Says White House reporter James Gerstenzang of the Los Angeles Times, one of the few who will speak on the record: "Reporters feel condescension and contempt for Bush. There really...
...their work very often proceeds without anyone taking a broad view. "The approach to diseases in general has been sort of haphazard," says Donna Brogan, chairperson of the biostatistics division at Emory University's School of Public Health and a member of the research task force for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. By organizing their own scientific meetings, advocates help assess the state of research for a particular disease and look for areas that need strengthening. "That's unique to them," says NIH director Healy. "They are setting bold, far-reaching goals...
...total allocation remains roughly the same. The only way for the NIH to follow Congress's orders is to eliminate existing programs and transfer the resources. This year's budget for the National Cancer Institute, for example, contains an order to increase by more than one-third spending on breast-, cervical- and prostate-cancer research. Yet congressional funding for the institute did not even keep pace with inflation...