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...another century. Newfoundland fishermen used the dogs to gather nets spread in rich offshore fishing grounds. With a double coat similar to an otter's, the dogs withstood long exposure in the icy waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with...
...already Sweden's Princess Victoria finds royal duties a yawn. The first child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia slept through her official introduction to the press last week but awakened in time to give a most unprincess-like howl. German-born Queen Silvia, 33, is breast-feeding her daughter and hopes, she says, to give Victoria "as natural a childhood as possible." Meanwhile, members of Sweden's Parliament are preparing a recommendation that the constitution be changed to allow a female succession to the throne. Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is also speaking...
Most doctors remain as skeptical as ever about Laetrile. Indeed, in still another refutation of claims about the substance, scientists at the Battelle Memorial Institute reported that new experiments with mice showed Laetrile offered no benefits whatsoever in the treatment of either breast or colon cancers transplanted from humans. Dr. Joseph Ross, a U.C.L.A. professor of medicine, also raised the "strong possibility" that long-term ingestion of Laetrile could result in chronic poisoning similar to that from the starchy cassava root, which, like Laetrile, contains cyanide...
...much larger than a stethoscope and used somewhat like it, the little antenna built by Barrett and an M.I.T. colleague, Philip Myers, is placed against nine different sites on the breast and held at each for about 10 seconds. If one spot turns out to be significantly hotter than a comparable area on the other breast, the supervising radiologist is alerted and can make other checks for a tumor, including X rays...
...need for a skilled X-ray interpreter to make an initial judgment, Sadowsky points out, the microwave detector could at the very least be used for prescreening women-especially those under 35 who are ordinarily not encouraged to have mammograms unless they have a family history of breast cancer or symptoms of the disease...