Word: polyps
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...when," says a senior intelligence officer. Residents of northern Israel are petrified by the prospect. With Hizballah now right against the border, its fighters can easily fire into Israeli towns. Border infiltrations are another risk. Emblazoned in the collective memory of Misgav Am, a kibbutz that juts like a polyp into Lebanese territory, is the night in 1980 when Palestinian terrorists slipped across the border and took over the communal dormitory where local children slept, shooting to death the village secretary as well as a soldier and crushing the head of a weepy two-year-old boy. "Hizballah is responsible...
...than anything else, the reports show how little we understand about the ways diet affects health. In the larger of the two studies, Dr. Arthur Schatzkin of the National Cancer Institute and his colleagues recruited 2,079 men and women ages 35 and older who had had a precancerous polyp removed from their colon in the previous six months. (About 5% to 10% of such polyps eventually become malignant.) The volunteers were then randomly divided into an "intervention group," which ate a low-fat diet that included five to eight servings of fruits and vegetables each day, and a control...