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...never been a smoker and you develop lung cancer, how did you get it? Is it genetics, environment, radon, luck of the draw...
...quickly growing population of people with lung cancer appears to be nonsmoking women. While men still have a greater number of overall lung cancer cases, nonsmoking women are much more likely than nonsmoking men to develop cancer. We don't know why that is, but we think it might have to do with changes in hormones. Women may be more likely to develop cancer because of hormonal changes. In terms of environmental exposure, if radon is in fact a culprit in the home and more women are at home than men, that could be part of the answer...
...Under such circumstances, meaningful discussions were impossible. But not even the supposedly unilateralist Bush Administration was willing to declare the talks finished. So Pyongyang was free to press ahead in its race to develop and amass nuclear weapons, confident that it would be able to return to "denuclearization" discussions at a time of Kim Jong Il's own choosing. North Korea finally agreed in June to go back to the table, but only after a promise of half a million tons of free rice from South Korea. And in the months leading up to the current talks, North Korea...
...Pedestals," about Filipinos' "schizophrenic political culture" [July 18]. But I balked at Magno's conclusion: "After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation ... we will settle back to a comfortable regime of elastic rules and mediated processes. It is our culture?and our fate." Can't a culture develop and change for the better? I believe that as we Filipinos continue to learn progressive ideas, adopt modern ways, pursue quality education and experience globalization, we shall arrive sooner or later at a brighter tomorrow. It may take time, disciplined effort and enlightened leadership, but we will grow and mature...
...formative stages around you every day: high schoolers piling on the extracurriculars to develop well-rounded college applications, undergrads trying to best their peers at the who-has-the-most-work game, and the popular stereotypes of lawyers, bankers, and other corporate stiffs. Unfortunately, I catch myself falling into the mindset as well, my moments of reprieve usurped by a preoccupation with looming deadlines...