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The absolute risk increase was just 0.1 percentage point. HRT was linked to, potentially, one additional case of breast cancer in every thousand patients. Yet this tiny increase in absolute risk was deemed to outweigh any benefits, meaning
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“Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“She’s too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There’s much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.”
― Leaven of Malice
― Leaven of Malice
“The wind had teeth today, it bit right through his calfskin jacket. It was a wind unchecked by any serious topography between the Arctic and St. Jude.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“It struck him that if he could have sex with this girl for one second he could face his parents confidently, and that if he could keep on having sex with this girl once every minute for as long as his parents were in town he could survive their entire visit.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
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