Dear Ann Landers, am writing about your column on breast can-cer in which you stated, "One out of eight women will get breast cancer." I believe these statistics are often used to distort opinions when pulled out of context. While some women may need to be frightened into get-ting regular checkups and mammograms, there are a great many others who don't appreciate the anxiety caused by incomplete data. Would you please print the following from the Women's Health Let-ter? It presents a more realistic picture. Thank you. -Longtime Reader in Keller, Texas
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Dear Readers, , I would have given her a swift kick in the Levis and left her with the car and the flat tire to figure things out for herself. It makes me mad the way women today want to drive buses, trucks, and taxis, fly air-planes, be lawyers and doctors, and run for public office, but they don’t want to do any of the hard work connected with the job. I say nobody should get behind the wheel of a car if he isn’t willing to change a tire. I work in a post office that has hired several women in the past few years. These women get the same pay as men, but they don’t go near the eighty-pound sacks because a law says they don’t have to pick up anything heavier than forty pounds. Is this fair?-Feduplentywithem
