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...incidence of cancer among women who do not use estrogen is less than one-tenth that of women who take estrogen, the article reports. The incidence of cancer among those who use estrogen is between 1 and 3 per cent...
Team scoring leader Huber started things off only 45 seconds into the game with her tenth goal of the season, a wrist shot from about 20 feet out, then doubled Harvard's lead with a stuff shot four minutes later...
...centuries. We spent most of the time picking fruit: peaches, pears, and cherries. Each day, every day, we slowly wound our way among the trees, picking the fruits as quickly as we could, as time ticked by ever so slowly. The Vallets had only 30 acres, less than one-tenth the size of the average American farm, and so every last fruit had to be picked, and not a peach could be wasted...
Voznesensky's tenth book reinforces his reputation as a major lyricist and enhances his role as the last of the international troubadours, a public man as recognizable on American campuses as he is on his own soil. Literary and political celebrities throng these pages: Poets Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Wilbur are among the many translators; Senator Edward Kennedy and Playwright Arthur Miller contribute moving forewords. Several poems recall encounters with Robert Lowell. Robert Kennedy, Boris Pasternak and Marc Chagall. By all customary standards Voznesensky should be thoroughly corrupted by recognition and applause. Instead, his work...
...stakes can be steep: for each one-tenth of a gallon that its fleet falls below the required 19 m.p.g. average, a company must pay a federal fine of $5 for every car it sells. Since GM sells around 5 million autos annually, a shortfall of one-tenth of a gallon could result in a fine of $25 million...