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...pictures of moving figures could be so ... moving. Poetry in motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the deepest empathy. That?s why, to many people, the most romantic film couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range of intimacies in a love affair...
This year, he and co-writer David Heath reported on patients who had been involved in clinical trials without being informed of the risks at Seattle’s prestigious Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...
...major networks' new hit sitcoms star black men. This would not have been news in the era of mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey...
...slab casting process, Steel Dynamics produces flat-rolled sheet coils for $50 to $100 less per ton than its integrated competitors. Last year output per employee was $1.1 million, vs. about $254,000 at Bethlehem. "A lot of high-tech companies don't have our revenues per employee," says Fred Warner, investor-relations manager at Steel Dynamics. And analysts say the minis' market share would probably rise even faster if imports were curtailed. "The minis will expand again with higher prices," says Robert Crandall, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Over time they will take over most product lines...
...were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because of advances in detection techniques. Yet the treatment of choice is still surgery followed by radiation. "We may be far overtreating our patients," says Dr. Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "We've now got women being diagnosed with tumors that probably never would have been treated if we didn't have mammography. They probably would have lived long, natural, healthy lives never knowing they had breast cancer...