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...often attributed to fibroid tumors (which may or may not be a factor). Because their symptoms have been poorly understood, many women have undergone unnecessary hysterectomies and D&Cs (dilatation and curettage), a procedure that scrapes away the uterine lining. Roughly 1 out of 4 U.S. women is thrown into "surgical menopause" by the removal of her uterus and ovaries instead of hitting menopause naturally...
...distressed to find they gain weight (though it's unclear that estrogen is really to blame). When Lynn Schleeter, 44, of New Brighton, Minnesota, was taking estrogen and progesterone, "I was so lethargic, I couldn't walk around the block." She feels more energetic now that she has thrown away her estrogen patch and switched to a regimen of exercise, vitamins and calcium supplements (to fight osteoporosis...
Having so dramatically fallen to earth, Scott O'Grady last week was thrown into the sun. The bright, hot rays of instant fame enveloped him: newspapers put him on their front pages and magazines on their covers; he appeared on all three network morning shows the very same day; and the Clinton Administration and the Air Force exploited his pluck and Gary Cooperish innocence, determined that he be asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public...
...writer to pull this off utterly without mawkishness is astonishing. And jolting; what's common among mannerly short-story writers is to leave the reader, in a muted last paragraph, with a carefully polished pebble of irony. Jones leaves a chunk of primal matter, painful to hold, thrown up from volcanic depths...
...anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out." The handful of opponents Wednesday found a rare conservative ally in Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, who criticized the cheap political theatrics at play: "It's kind of a game, to see who can be the most against pornography and obscenity," Hatch said. "It's a political exercise...