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Once the signal is transmitted, most of the pill's electronic components safely break down in the stomach, while a tiny RF chip moves through the digestive tract and exits the body naturally.
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Introverted, romantic and intellectual, she read everything from Walter Scott and Jane Austen to abolitionist tracts and records of Senate debates.
Cobb didn’t find much to read about menopause, beyond shoddy research and medical tracts which trivialized or pathologized what she knew to be a natural phase of life.
The analysis showed that women who lived in the same census tract as at least one Superfund site were about 30% more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
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The authors quote oil engineers: “If one wins a tract against two or three others, he may feel fine about his good fortune. But how should he feel if he won against 50 others? Ill.”
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