ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, September 25, 1996 TAG: 9609250072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Study eases fears of pill's cancer risks
NEW YORK - Birth control pills don't raise a woman's long-term risk of breast cancer, a huge international study found.
It found no sign of increased risk for women who had stopped taking the pills more than 10 years before.
It did show a small increase in breast cancer rates for women who had quit more recently or who were still using the pill, but that might only mean the cancer was being diagnosed earlier than in other women, the researchers said.
The Associated Press reported the results in June when they appeared in The Lancet, a medical journal. The study is now being reported in the September issue of the journal Contraception.
The analysis combined data from 54 studies in 25 countries.
- Associated Press
1 by land, 2 if by sea, and 5 pounds for me
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Listen my children and you shall hear of an earlier ride by Paul Revere.
Five months before his famous ride warning that the British were coming, he made a little-known trek to Portsmouth to sound a warning - and charged a fee for his trouble.
The bill he submitted is now up for auction, and one Portsmouth resident is trying to raise enough money to buy it so the document can go on display at City Hall.
Revere rode to Portsmouth in December 1774 to warn members of the Committee of Safety that British troops had been ordered to fortify Fort William and Mary, now known as Fort Constitution, in New Castle.
Before the British reinforcements arrived, patriots made off with the fort's gunpowder, which was later used against the British at Bunker Hill.
The ``bill'' Revere submitted is up for auction Thursday at Swann Galleries in New York City.
The bill reads:
``Horse hired to Portsmouth - 1 pound, 10;
My expenses - 1 pound, 10;
Horse hired from Boston to Dorchester and Watertown - 6 pence;
My time - 2 pounds, 8;
Total - 5.14 Sterling.''
- Associated Press
Colonel's secrets go beyond 11 herbs
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The spice at Colonel Sanders' house was apparently about more than chicken.
Margaret Sanders, 86, the eldest daughter of the late Harland Sanders, says in her new book, ``The Colonel's Secret: Eleven Herbs and a Spicy Daughter,'' that the KFC founder had a mistress, and even persuaded his wife to hire the woman to ``help with the housework.''
``It was evident from the beginning that her presence would create turmoil,'' Sanders writes. ``Mother refused to accept that she alone could not satisfy Father's physical needs, which from the very beginning of their marriage had seemed excessive to her.''
Later, she writes, the Colonel divorced his wife and married the mistress - and then took both women to a presidential inauguration in Washington.
- Associated Press
Victim: Don't free castrated rapist
LITTLE ROCK - A convict who was castrated while awaiting trial on rape charges should remain behind bars, despite evidence supporting his innocence, said the woman he was convicted of raping.
``I'm scared for my safety, and I'm scared for every woman that walks the street. He's a repeat offender and I think he will do it again,'' said Ashley Stevens after meeting with Gov. Mike Huckabee on Monday.
Huckabee said he intends to commute the sentence of Wayne Dumond, who was convicted of raping Stevens in 1984 when she was 17. Recent DNA evidence indicates the sperm found on the victim's pants was not Dumond's.
While awaiting trial, Dumond, 47, was castrated by two men in stocking masks who broke into his home. A sheriff involved in the investigation had Dumond's testicles preserved in formaldehyde and displayed on his desk for about two weeks. Dumond won a $110,000 lawsuit over the display.
Stevens, who held a news conference Monday and told the media to publish her name, said one argument against releasing Dumond is a 1976 police report containing his confession to a sexual assault that was never prosecuted because the woman declined to testify.
- Associated Press
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