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...tissue can conceal the disease since both tumors and healthy tissue may show up white on a mammogram. Asian women even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers in Singapore have shown that Caucasian patients may require higher doses per pound of body weight than non-Caucasians. Since most dosing regimens are calibrated to the Western body, some doctors in Singapore report having to adjust quantities...
...released in February by the University of Southern California showed that among a sample group of 110,599 people, women who engaged in strenuous activity five hours a week had, over the long term, a 20% lower risk of invasive breast cancer, particularly ER-negative tumors. Doctors aren't certain about the precise mechanism at work, but the leaner body mass an active woman is likely to have and the healthier diet she is likely to follow can't hurt...
...Across Massachusetts Avenue, the Coop is showcasing books from “Harry Potter” series, which has received its fair share of controversy. While the Square’s outlook may sway liberal, other parts of the country can still be somewhat skittish over certain titles. Accordingly, the American Library Association’s “Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2006” was a children’s picture book about the relationship between two male penguins titled “And Tango Makes Three.” “Typically, in history, censorship...
...reasonably certain that one reason the Harvard Korea Institute was so willing to give me a fat wad of cash for thesis research in Korea was the fact that I’m a lily-white Jew. Such people don’t usually go to Korea, so how could the Institute pass up such a public-relations coup...
...This was a character-building experience of a certain sort. It built vast reserves of sarcasm and irony-tools of the journalistic trade, I later learned-which came in very handy when the New York Mets brought National League baseball back to the city in 1962. Those first Mets were a team for the ages, the worst team in baseball history. Not just bad, but theatrically bad, Paris Hilton bad: hilariously awful. We Mets fans became connoisseurs of baseball perversity. I was sitting in the stands the day Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple and was called out for missing...