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...more lethal are the darkly pigmented spots of malignant melanoma, which strikes more than 15,000 Americans a year, killing 45% of them. Though melanoma tends to occur on such sun-exposed areas as the chests of men and legs of women, its relationship to the sun remains unclear. A history of severe sunburns may play a role; pregnancy and birth control pills have also been implicated...
Little can be gleaned about the author himself from the cryptic "biographical" information on the dustcover, which sounds much like the drunken fiction inside. But if his background is unclear, Erofeev's literary heritage is not: his prose is in the great Russian grotesque tradition, hearkening back to Gogol by way of such earlier Soviet satirists as Bulgakov, Zamyatin, and Zoshchenko. There are also traces of authors as diverse as the Symbolist Andrei Bely (in some of the bizarre urban imagery). Rabelais, and J.D. Salinger (whose Catcher in the Rye was widely circulated in the Soviet Union...
...unclear whether the conference topic was "third world" women (joint issue), women and the "third world" (related issue), of on women and on the "third world" (separate issue). The result was a conference characterized by a lack of cohesion, outdated information, no sense of direction, and simplistic models wherein slogans took the place of rigorous analysis. The panelists seemed to suggest that--structural constraints notwithstanding--with good planning and a little good will the problems of women and of development would be resolved...
...business strictly on business concerns," Walcott added. He called Hovey a "reliable vendor," and said it would be inappropriate for him to penalize the company, particularly because the facts of the case were unclear...
...furthermore unclear to what extent McCloy influenced these policies. As assistant secretary of War, he oversaw the internment program, but no historical evidence credits him with the idea. And Brinkley, in his Harper's article, credits McCloy for whatever shred of humanness the program may have had. The refusal to bomb Auschwitz was again in the hands of higher military personnel, and Roosevelt and Churchill themselves. An American review board initiated the commutation of Nazi sentences; McCloy mainly followed its instructions...