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The X-Men are celebrating their 50th anniversary. Click through the gallery for a look at 50 memorable moments in the Marvel mutants' evolution. (Gallery by Blake Hennon. Images above by Fox; Marvel; 20th Century Fox)Link
1. "X-Men" No. 1 (1963) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduce "The Strangest Heroes of All" -- and their archnemesis, Magneto. The first mutant power readers saw? Professor Charles Xavier telepathically calling his teenage students to class. They were: the optic-blasting Cyclops (Scott Summers, introduced here as "Slim"); superstrong and agile Beast (Hank McCoy); frost-wielding Iceman (Bobby Drake); flying Angel (Warren Worthington III); and, a few pages later, the telekinetic Jean Grey, a new arrival the professor declares will be called Marvel Girl (it wouldn't stick). The "X" in X-Men is for "Ex-tra power," Xavier says (that too would change). Before the Magneto threat arises, Jean must first deal with the attentions of her new classmates. Their first mission finds them fighting the master of magnetism off a military base – and when they succeed, a general exclaims "Uncanny!" No one could have guessed how rich and complex these heroes' and this villain's relationships would become. (Jack Kirby / Marvel)Link
2. "X-Men" No. 4 (1964) Magneto is back – and this time he's brought company, the non-too-subtly dubbed Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. His team includes the leaping Toad; telepathic illusionist Mastermind; and a pair of siblings: the super-speedster Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) and the hex-powered Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff). The X-Men defeat them, and Quicksilver shows he's not all bad (he and his sister would soon go heroic and join the Avengers). So much in mutant history has its beginnings here: Magneto would be revealed to be Pietro and Wanda's father; the Scarlet Witch's power would be taken to terrifying extremes; Toad would become a janitor. But for now, there's a one-year anniversary class party at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, and Cyclops cuts Marvel Girl a piece of cake using his optic blast. Aww. (Jack Kirby / Marvel)Link
3. "X-Men" No. 10 (1965) A news report of a saber-toothed tiger and a primitive man spotted in Antarctica leads to the team's discovery of the Savage Land, a prehistoric jungle hidden in the ice ("Boy!" Iceman says before the trip, "The South Pole is one place I'll feel right at home!"). It's since been the setting for many stories starring the X-Men and other Marvel characters, including a recent eventful field trip in "Wolverine and the X-Men." (Jack Kirby / Marvel, left; Ramon Perez / Marvel, right)Link
4. "X-Men" No. 14 (1965) Dr. Bolivar Trask declares that the greatest menace to humanity is not "cold wars, hot wars, atom bombs and the like," but mutants. His solution? Sentinels, robots designed to defeat them. So begins four issues (and now decades) of conflict between X-Men and mechanical giants. This is the last Stan Lee and Jack Kirby story on this list – each would leave the series before it reached No. 20. (Jack Kirby / Marvel)Link
5. "The Marvel Super-Heroes" (Nov. 25, 1966) The X-Men make their television debut, albeit under the name Allies for Peace, in a Namor the Sub-Mariner cartoon adventure. It would be a quarter-century before they got their own show. (Grantray-Lawrence Animation / Marvel)Link
6. "X-Men" No. 42 (1968) Professor X dies in conflict with Grotesk the Sub-Human but saves the world in this story from writer Roy Thomas and artist Don Heck. This first major death in the mutant franchise lasted about two years, until No. 65, when a story from writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams has Cyclops' brother Havok (Alex Summers) reveal a still-living Charles Xavier. The professor says he was secreted away planning a counter to an alien invasion, and his collaborator Changeling, who'd taken his form, was the one who died. (Where was he hiding? Oh, in a subbasement of the mansion.) (John Buscema / Marvel)Link
7. "X-Men" No. 66 (1970) This story by writer Roy Thomas and artist Sal Buscema was the last original X-Men adventure in the series, which had never been a significant sales success, before years of issues reprinting past tales (though X-characters did appear sporadically in other Marvel titles in 1971-1974). Professor X, drained from using his mental powers to stop the Z'nox invasion in No. 65, is restored from his comatose state on the final page (after the X-Men have battled the Hulk during an interruption of their bedside vigil). (Sal Buscema / Marvel)Link
8. "Giant-Size X-Men" No. 1 (1975) Professor X recruits new members in this deluxe issue by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum that restarted and reinvigorated X-Men comics. Some are all-new characters – the blue-skinned teleporter Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner, from Germany), weather-controlling Storm (Ororo, from Kenya), metallic-skin-transforming Colossus (Peter Rasputin, from Russia) and superhumanly athletic Thunderbird (John Proudstar, from an Apache reservation). Others had previously appeared in Marvel Comics – the clawed Wolverine (Logan, from Canada), plasma-blasting Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida, from Japan) and screaming Banshee (Sean Cassidy, from Ireland). Cyclops leads them to rescue his teammates Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, Havok and Polaris (Lorna Dane) from Krakoa, the living island. Angel asks, "What are we going to do with 13 X-Men?" Oh, Angel – only 13? Just you wait. (Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum / Marvel)Link
9. "X-Men" No. 94 & 95 (1975) The Chris Claremont era begins in these Dave Cockrum-illustrated issues that immediately followed "Giant-Size" No. 1. He scripted these two from Len Wein's plot before taking over full writing duties in No. 96, and didn't pause for 17 years. Team lineup upheaval continues: Sunfire splits, as do original members Jean Grey (who kisses Scott and exchanges "I love you's" on her way out), Bobby Drake and Warren Worthington, plus Alex Summers and Lorna Dane. As the new team starts to come together, it loses one of its own – Thunderbird dies in battle in No. 95. (Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum / Marvel)Link
10. "X-Men" No. 101 (1976) Jean Grey emerges as the Phoenix. But let's back up a second. Yes, Jean left in No. 95 – that's how Len Wein plotted it. But Chris Claremont, who has written that he'd been "smitten" with the character since 1969, was determined to bring her back. She was there in No. 97, and in 100 had sacrificed herself, piloting a space shuttle through a solar storm, to save the others. In this issue, after the shuttle crash-lands into water, Jean rises (in a new costume) and declares, "No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever – I am Phoenix!" before collapsing. What her words meant would turn out to be shocking. (Dave Cockrum / Marvel)Link
11. "X-Men" No. 107 (1977) Transported off Earth in a flash, the X-Men meet (and almost immediately fight) the Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar Empire. They also meet (and get help from) the Starjammers, whose American-accented leader, Corsair (just below the "E" of the logo on this cover), is Cyclops' and Havok's long-missing father, as Jean Grey learns from a mindscan (though she doesn't reveal it until No. 108). Claremont and Cockrum had been building up to the X-Men-Shi'ar encounter, giving Professor X dreams of an alien princess, Lilandra (or, as the prof himself had put it upon meeting her in No. 105, "the figure from my nightmares!" – some way to talk about your future wife). The Shi'ar and Starjammers have figured into many X-stories since. (Dave Cockrum / Marvel)Link
12. "X-Men" No. 137 (1980) "The Dark Phoenix Saga" from writer Chris Claremont and co-plotter / artist John Byrne reaches its climax. The Phoenix that Jean Grey emerged as back in No. 101 is now responsible for 5 billion deaths in a distant star system, and the Shi'ar have decided she must be destroyed. The X-Men fight to save her, but in the end Jean sacrifices herself. "Jean Grey could have lived to become a god," the Watcher says. "But it was more important to her that she die … a human." The classic story line also introduced the Hellfire Club . Cyclops subsequently leaves the team, and Storm becomes its first female leader. (John Byrne / Marvel)Link
13. "The Uncanny X-Men" No. 141-142 (1981) Readers knew something was up when they saw "Kate Pryde" instead of "Kitty Pryde." The phasing-through-solid-matter 13-year-old mutant girl they knew was now older, with a face that had lived through things, walking past the graves of Charles Xavier and many more. It's 2013, and the Mutant Control Act and Sentinels have led to millions of mutant deaths. Conspiring with fellow survivors, Kate is sent back to 1980 – and into her teenage self – to prevent this future. The two-part "Days of Future Past" from the legendary team of Claremont and Byrne is enduringly popular. (Note: "The Uncanny," which had sometimes appeared over "X-Men" on the cover, sticks from No. 139 forward, and the series' previous issues have been retroactively called "The Uncanny X-Men.") (John Byrne / Marvel)Link
14. "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" (1981) Ice Man becomes the first recurring X-Man on TV as a series regular, as he and college pals / housemates Spidey and Firestar fight crime in the NBC series. Additional X-Men also appear in some episodes. (Marvel)Link
15. X-Men vs. the Brood (1982 onward) Shi'ar leader Lilandra's evil sister Deathbird tells the hideous, bug-looking, fanged, stinging Brood that the X-Men would be good hosts for their eggs. The X-Men forcefully disagree. First appearing in "Uncanny X-Men" No. 155, the alien creatures are seen above left in Paul Smith's cover for No. 166. Marc Silvestri's cover for No. 234 shows a Brood-infected Wolverine (his healing factor prevails). Logan later has a Broodling, the studious, well-mannered, glasses-wearing Broo, as a pupil at the Jean Grey School. (Marvel)Link
16. "Wolverine" (1982) "I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do isn't very nice," Logan narrates as this limited series by Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller begins. If he wasn't a breakout star already, this adventure in Japan (which inspired the 2013 film "The Wolverine") sealed the deal. Since, in addition to seemingly countless team book appearances, Wolverine has starred in more than 300 issues of his solo comic series. Miller, who'd already made an impression on "Daredevil," went on to write the classic Batman stories "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Year One" and create "Sin City" and "300," both of which were adapted into films. (Frank Miller / Marvel)Link
17. "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills" (1982) It begins with two children murdered on a playground, their corpses labeled "MUTIES." Magneto, who discovers their bodies, later laments, "Once more, genocide in the name of God. A story as old as the race." The man trying to rid the world of mutants is the Rev. William Stryker, who believes they are creations of the devil. The original graphic novel by Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson ("Astro City") finds Magneto joining forces with the X-Men after Stryker abducts Professor X, Cyclops and Storm. Cyclops' greatest power here turns out to be public speaking. Elements from this acclaimed contemplative adventure story were used for the 2003 film "X2: X-Men United," and Claremont wrote a follow-up that year in an arc of "X-treme X-Men."Link
18. "The New Mutants" No. 1 (1983) The Xavier School gets some new students as Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod introduce the first of many, many, many X-Men spinoff titles. The class, which first appeared in the "New Mutants" original graphic novel in 1982, includes Psyche (Danielle Moonstar), left, Cannonball (Sam Guthrie), Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), Sunspot (Roberto da Costa) and Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh). (Later, when Kitty Pryde is reassigned from the X-Men to the New Mutants, she shouts the classic line, "Professor Xavier is a jerk!") The second X-spinoff, "Alpha Flight," started later in 1983, with the decade also bringing along "X-Factor," "Excalibur" and "Wolverine." (Bob McLeod / Marvel)Link
19. "Uncanny X-Men" No. 172 & 173 (1983) In the two-part "To Have and Have Not," Wolverine is to wed Mariko Yashida. You might guess from the blade in the invitation through Logan's heart on Paul Smith's cover for No. 172 that things don't go well. There's trouble from Viper and Silver Samurai, and Mariko calls off the wedding as it's about to begin. Poor Logan. Also, the team meets Cyclops' new girlfriend, Madelyne Pryor, a dead ringer for Jean Grey. (Talk about a complicated relationship: That pair gets married soon after, in No. 175; he's away when she gives birth to their son, Nathan; Scott abandons them when Jean reemerges; Madelyne is revealed to be a Mr. Sinister-created clone of Jean and becomes Goblin Queen …) (Marvel)Link
20. "The New Mutants" No. 35 (1986) The new headmaster of the Xavier School is … Magneto?! The same Magneto who had just stood trial for crimes against humanity?! Yes, the same. An ailing Charles Xavier, who left Earth with Lilandra and Corsair, had asked his old friend/foe to take over, which he does in this issue by Claremont and artist Mary Wilshire. The X-Men's oldest adversary holds on to the gig for about 40 issues. (Mary Wilshire and Bill Sienkiewicz / Marvel)Link
21. "Fantastic Four" No. 286 and "X-Factor" No. 1 (1986) Members of the Fantastic Four and Avengers find that the person in a metal cylinder found under water is Jean Grey. In the John Byrne-written and -drawn "FF" issue, Jean remembers that when she was piloting that space shuttle back in "X-Men No. 100," she let the Phoenix take her identity to save her friends. So that wasn't her whom readers saw die more than five years ago (mere months in the Marvel universe). In "X-Factor" No. 1, by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice, Jean and the other four original X-Men reform under a new name. The series, soon under Louise and Walter Simonson, introduces the major villain Apocalypse. (John Byrne / Marvel, left; Walter Simonson / Marvel, right)Link
22. "Mutant Massacre" (1986) It's the dawn of the mega X-crossover era as this 12-issue story spans six series, even pulling in "Thor" and "Daredevil." The Marauders, including Sabretooth, who becomes a regular Wolverine antagonist, are slaughtering the subterranean mutants known as Morlocks. The X-Men, X-Factor, Power Pack and Thor all come to the Morlocks' aid. Angel's wings are so badly damaged in battle that they must be amputated. Sabretooth mentions the name of the Marauders' shadowy leader, Mr. Sinister. He would make his first full appearance later and play a major role in the 1989 crossover "Inferno." Creators included Chris Claremont, Louise and Walter Simonson, John Romita Jr., Ann Nocenti and Sal Buscema. (Terry Dodson / Marvel)Link
23. "The Fall of the Mutants" (1988) It's the crossover that doesn't exactly cross over. Under the "Fall" banner, the X-Men, who are defying the Mutant Registration Act, combat government operatives led by Mystique, and later, with Forge's help, a demon, and all die before being quickly revived by a goddess; X-Factor battles Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen, who include their former teammate Angel, remade as Archangel; the New Mutants fight back against the anti-mutant group the Right, and Cypher is killed. (Marvel)Link
24. "X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men" (1989) This pilot is the first attempt at an X-Men animated series, but the right formula wouldn't be found until a few years later (and that formula does not include an Australian accent for Wolverine). "Pryde" aired in a syndicated Marvel animation block and got a home video release. The team seen here – Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Dazzler and Nightcrawler – would also be the one in the 1992 arcade game, which also had a plot involving Kitty Pryde. (Marvel Productions / Best Film & Video Corp.)Link
25. "The New Mutants" No. 87 (1990) Cable is out to take down the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front and its leader, Stryfe (later the villain of the "X-cutioner's Song" crossover). This issue by Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld marks the first full appearance of one of the 1990s' most popular comic characters. He would become the leader of New Mutants, soon renamed X-Force in a new Liefeld-written and -drawn series, and later be revealed as Scott Summers' son Nathan, who had been taken to the future. (Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane / Marvel)Link
26. "X-Men" No. 1 (1991) The pitch to readers (and speculators) was a doozy: a new "X-Men" No. 1 by iconic X-writer Chris Claremont and co-writer/ hot young artist Jim Lee, with five different covers. The Guinness Book of World Records indicates the pitch worked, as this issue is listed as the bestselling comic ever, with more than 8 million copies. The X-Men split into Blue and Gold teams, and take on Magneto. Claremont would be gone after No. 3, ending a remarkable 17-year run on X-books in which he turned an also-ran title into a franchise-spawning bestseller. (It would be years before he returned to mutantdom, most notably on "X-treme X-Men" from 2001-2004.) Lee would leave several issues later to co-found Image Comics (he's now co-publisher at DC). (Jim Lee / Marvel)Link
27. Toy Biz Series 1 of X-Men action figures (1991) The franchise's first toy line launches with Nightcrawler, left, Storm and Juggernaut, plus Wolverine, Cyclops, Archangel, Colossus, Magneto and Apocalypse. It was the first of many waves featuring characters great and obscure (Kylun?!!). (Courtesy Kyle Happ / MarvelToys.net)Link
28. "X-Men" arcade game by Konami (1992) This was not the first X-Men video game – there were a few home console and computer releases before, but this was undoubtedly the biggest. There were six playable X-Men characters (Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Dazzler and Nightcrawler), and as many as six people could play simultaneously in the fight against Magneto, who attracted a lot of quarters. An IGN review of a 2010 re-creation for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade noted it was "ludicrously mindless" but "simply a blast to play with friends." A slew of X-games for various formats have followed. There's a pinball machine too. ( The International Arcade Museum )Link
29. "X-Men" animated series (1992-1997) That's not mall security, Jubilee, that's a Sentinel. Luckily, Storm, Rogue and Gambit are there to save her in the first episode. Fun from the opening credits, this hit show ran for 76 episodes, all of which are available for streaming at Marvel.com. It showed the breadth and depth of the X-comics, featuring a vast array of guest characters and adapting stories including the Phoenix saga and "Days of Future Past." (Fox)Link
30. "X-Men" No. 25 (1993) Among the dizzying number of 1990s X-crossovers, often dizzying within themselves, perhaps no single moment stands out more than Magneto ripping the adamantium from Wolverine's body in this issue by Fabian Nicieza and artist Andy Kubert, Part 4 of "Fatal Attractions." Logan doesn't scream, but Jean does. In retaliation, Professor X takes out Magneto's mind, leaving him comatose. Wolverine would rock bone claws in the comics for several years afterward before adamantium was written back into him (and Magneto would be restored too). (Andy Kubert / Marvel)Link
31. "X-Men" No. 30 (1994) Writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Andy Kubert cordially invite you to the nuptials of Jean Grey and Scott Summers. Jean has her mother and sort-of daughter with her (Rachel is the child of a Jean and Scott from an alternate reality). Scott has his brother Alex and original teammates Bobby, Hank and Warren with him. No supervillains attack the ceremony. Storm warms up the winter's day for an ideal outdoor wedding. At the reception, Jean telekinetically lifts Xavier from his chair for a dance. (Andy Kubert and Matthew Ryan / Marvel)Link
32. "The Age of Apocalypse" (1995) What would the world be like if Charles Xavier died before founding the X-Men? Bad. Very bad. When Xavier's mentally ill son, Legion, travels decades into the past to kill Magneto, Charles instead dies saving his then-friend. Apocalypse then conquers much of the world. This popular crossover event encompassed eight miniseries that temporarily replaced the regular X-titles, plus two special issues, featured radically reconfigured teams in its alternate reality and involved talents including Scott Lobdell, Andy Kubert, Mark Waid, Adam Kubert, Warren Ellis, Chris Bachalo, Jeph Loeb and Steve Epting. (Marvel)Link
33. "Generation X" (Feb. 20, 1996) This obscure TV movie marks the first live-action production out of the X-franchise. The teen-mutant-focused story, based somewhat on the Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo comic series of the same title, aired on Fox, then home to both "Beverly Hills 90210" and "The X-Files." The cast included Finola Hughes (a Daytime Emmy winner for "General Hospital"), back right, as school co-leader Emma Frost and Matt Frewer ("Max Headroom"), back left, as the villain. (Alan Zenuk / Fox)Link
34. "X-Men" (July 14, 2000) Director Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects," "Apt Pupil") brings the team to the big screen and a level of box-office success that jump-starts superhero cinema and launches a still-going film franchise. Professor X (Patrick Stewart, front) leads new recruit Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, back left) and a team that includes Cyclops (James Marsden), Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) against Magneto (Ian McKellen) and his allies in a plot that involves a Mutant Registration Act and a mutation-causing device. What's cooler – the battle at the Statue of Liberty or that closing chess match between old friends Xavier and Magneto? (Attila Dory / 20th Century Fox)Link
35. "Ultimate X-Men No. 1" (2001) Mutantkind gets its Ultimate universe makeover courtesy of writer Mark Millar and the Kubert brothers. Wolverine sports a ponytail and a no-stache goatee. Beast wonders what kind of principal designs black latex uniforms for teenage students. Jean and Storm show a lot of midriff. Later writers on the series include Brian Michael Bendis, Brian K. Vaughan and Robert Kirkman. (Adam Kubert / Marvel)Link
36. "New X-Men" No. 114 (2001) Writer Grant Morrison ("Animal Man," "The Invisibles," "JLA") arrives, with artist Frank Quitely ("Flex Mentallo"), arrives, and things immediately get weird. "Forget your dental practice," new villain Cassandra Nova tells the nervous, frightened nephew of Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask. "Your future lies in genocide." The opening story arc, "E Is for Extinction," has Nova turning Sentinels on Genosha and killing 16 million mutants. Morrison's bestselling run, ending with No. 154, would also feature art by Ethan Van Sciver, Marc Silvestri and more, and introduced new student characters including psionic troublemaker Quentin Quire, creepy young Emma Frost clones the Stepford Cuckoos and Glob Herman. (Frank Quitely / Marvel)Link
37. "X-Force" No. 116 (2001) If you had an awesome mutant power, wouldn't you want to be famous? Writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred introduce a paradigm-defying new X-Force team, one made for media attention. After No. 129, the spotlight-loving gang moves to a different series and gets a new name with "X-Statix" No. 1 (which begins with a bitter X-Force fan complaining about this new team). The subversive series with a higher-than-usual death rate also attracted contributions from Eisner Award-winning artists Darwyn Cooke and Paul Pope. Never a top seller, "X-Statix" doesn't make it past No. 26. (Mike Allred / Marvel)Link
38. "X2: X-Men United" (2003) Col. William Stryker (adapted from the reverend of 1982's graphic novel "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills") wants to use Professor X and Cerebro to commit mutant genocide. To stop him, the likes of Magneto (Ian McKellen, left) and Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) join forces with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Storm (Halle Berry) in director Bryan Singer's second X-Men film, a box office and critical success. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) sacrifices herself and, in a closing tease that excited fans, a Phoenix shape appears over the lake where she died. Times film critic Kenneth Turan called Stryker actor Brian Cox the film's "secret weapon" and wrote that the movie's "concerns seem to be uncannily relevant today." (Kerry Hayes / 20th Century Fox)Link
39. "New X-Men" No. 150 (2004) Remember how in 1986 (or, well, earlier in this gallery) it was revealed that the Phoenix was actually separate from Jean Grey and she didn't actually die and so was revived in comics after a six-year absence? This time, under Grant Morrison and artist Phil Jimenez, she really has the Phoenix force, and she's really dying. "Live, Scott," she tells Cyclops as she draws her last breaths in his arms. "All I ever did was die on you." (She was temporarily revived by the Phoenix in 2005's "X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong" miniseries, but as of now is dead. Unless you count the time-traveled teenage Jean Grey in "All-New X-Men" …) (Phil Jimenez / Marvel)Link
40. "Astonishing X-Men" No. 1 (2004) Writer Joss Whedon, at this point a genre hero for cult favorite TV shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly," begins a bestselling, acclaimed 24-issue run with artist John Cassaday ("Planetary"). It would net an Eisner Award for continuing series in 2006 (the first and to date only such win for an X-title), and Cassaday would win the artist/penciler/inker prize for his work on it and other titles in 2005 and 2006. Whedon's trademark team dynamics are in full effect. Colossus comes back from the dead. The Danger Room is sentient, mutating and angry. What more do you want? Later, "Astonishing's" humble scribe takes another marquee Marvel superteam, the Avengers, to a billion-dollar box-office bonanza. (John Cassaday / Marvel)Link
41. "X-Factor" No. 1 (2005) Following a "Madrox" miniseries, Eisner Award-winning writer Peter David ("The Incredible Hulk," "Star Trek" comics and novels) relaunches the title with a noir spin, following Jamie Madrox, formerly known as Multiple Man, and his X-Factor Investigations crew. David's eight-year run ends today with No. 262 (don't ask about the numbering). He also had a run on an "X-Factor" title in the 1990s. The series, which has featured a romantic relationship between male characters Rictor and Shatterstar won a GLAAD Media Award in 2011. (Ryan Sook / Marvel)Link
42. "House of M" (2005) Just how powerful is the Scarlet Witch? Emma Frost explains: "One blink and she could erase us from existence and not even know she did it." In the "House of M" limited series, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, a mentally distressed Wanda Maximoff has altered reality: Now mutants rule over oppressed humans. Avengers and X-Men eventually remember how the world should be and move to stop her. With three words – "No more mutants" – she returns the world much to its previous state, but there are some changes. Chief among the ramifications: Millions of mutants have lost their powers; only a few hundred are unchanged. (Esad Ribic / Marvel)Link
43. "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006) Brett Ratner takes over the director's chair and delivers the film franchise's most financially successful outing, to mixed critical reaction. A "cure" for the X-gene leads to rifts, and the story includes a version of the Dark Phoenix, with Jean returning to life only to have to be killed again. Above, Storm (Halle Berry) leads Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) and Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) into conflict. (Diyah Pera / 20th Century Fox)Link
44. "Wolverine" and "X-Men" anime series (2011) "Wolverine" and "X-Men" are each re-imagined for a Japanese audience in 12-episode series for Animax, with English versions shown on G4, under the guidance of visionary writer Warren Ellis ("Transmetropolitan," "The Authority"). The Wolverine character, of course, has a history with Japan, and Mariko Yashida figures into his solo series. The X-Men take on the mutant-part-harvesting U-Men in theirs (which also features Wolverine). (Madhouse / Marvel Entertainment)Link
45. "X-Men: First Class" (2011) The first X-Men team film since "The Last Stand" is set in the early 1960s and finds Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones, left), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), government agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Havok (Lucas Till) coming together to take on the Hellfire Club. Director Matthew Vaughn's film proved a hit with moviegoers, though not with Times critic Betsy Sharkey, and showed how Professor X and Magneto went from friends to foes (and how Charles became paralyzed). (20th Century Fox)Link
46. "Astonishing X-Men" No. 51 (2012) Astonishing, indeed – here is the first same-sex wedding in mainstream superhero comics. Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) marries his partner, Kyle Jinadu, with Beast as officiant. After the "I do's," they kiss while floating in the air. Written by Marjorie Liu, with art by Mike Perkins. (Dustin Weaver / Marvel)Link
47. "Avengers vs. X-Men" No. 11 (2012) Possessed by the Phoenix force, Cyclops kills Professor X, who has allied with the Avengers to try and stop him, in this issue by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Olivier Coipel. "I finally put the world the way it's supposed to be," the former student tells his mentor shortly before the climactic confrontation. "I did it. Me. And it kills you." Cyclops no longer has the Phoenix power (and, in fact, his regular ability has been erratic), but he has started a rival school to Wolverine's (which is named after Jean Grey) – and named it after Xavier (who has, so far, remained dead). (Jim Cheung / Marvel)Link
48. "X-Men" No. 1 (2013) The third "X-Men" No. 1 on this list introduced the franchise's first all-female team: Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey, Psylocke and Jubilee. The ongoing title from writer Brian Wood ("The Massive," "DMZ," "Star Wars") and artist Olivier Coipel ("House of M," "Thor") launched with a first issue boasting the Coipel cover on the left and variants including the "no boys" one by Skottie Young ("Oz" adaptations) on the right. (Marvel)Link
49. "X-Men Battle of the Atom" (Sept. 4, 2013) Billed as an event 50 years in the making, this 10-part crossover involves X-Men of the future coming to the present to order the original teenage team – recently brought from the past to a future worse than they ever imagined – to return to the past. And, well, have you ever tried to tell a superpowered teenager what to do? It starts today with a special No. 1 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Frank Cho before running through "All-New X-Men," "X-Men," "Uncanny X-Men" and "Wolverine & the X-Men" this month and next before wrapping up in "Battle of the Atom" No. 2 on Oct. 30, with a creative crew that also has writers Jason Aaron and Brian Wood and artists including David Lopez. (Arthur Adams / Marvel)Link
50. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (May 23, 2014) OK, this hasn't happened yet (though principal photography has wrapped). But what's a little time travel when it comes to the X-Men? Director Bryan Singer is back. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are back. So are Hugh Jackman (for his seventh adventure as Wolverine), Halle Berry and Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde. The "First Class" kids return for a sophomore effort. Peter Dinklage is in. And it's based on one of the best stories in mutant history/future. Unlike the future in the story, this is a day to look forward to. (Trask-industries.com / 20th Century Fox)Link
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The X-Men's 50th anniversary arrives in the inimitable style of Marvel's uncanny mutants, with a comics crossover event, "Battle of the Atom," that involves team members from past, present and future.
As "X-Men: Battle of the Atom" No. 1 lands today, Hero Complex takes a look back at the first 50 years of the mutant franchise's evolution, with 50 images and detailed captions (which you can turn on and off) in the gallery above. There are major moments here across multiple media — classic story lines, key introductions, hit movies — but also a few notable false starts.
It's a journey that begins with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's "X-Men" No. 1, dated September 1963, and follows the "Strangest Super-Heroes of All" from their important but low-selling early years to effective cancellation in 1970 to mid-'70s revival to '80s expansion to '90s mega-sales and merchandising to 21st century blockbuster films and the X-comics' current creative renaissance in the Marvel Now initiative.
What a vibrant species Homo superior has turned out to be: There have been more than 2,500 X-comic issues, six feature films (including this summer's "The Wolverine," with another coming in next year's "X-Men: Days of Future Past"), several animated series, dozens of video games, phalanxes of action figures and, yes, even a breakfast cereal (with caramel toffee flavor!). (So not everything or everyone made the list — apologies to the Bishop faithful and others.)
The stories have been complex, to say the least. Just look at the number of characters who have seemingly died in the comics only to reappear. They include — but are certainly not limited to — Jean Grey, Professor X, Colossus, Apocalypse, Angel/Archangel, Cyclops, Magneto and, soon, Nightcrawler.
Fantastical powers, time travel, alternative realities, clones, aliens and more have figured into the adventures, but so have romantic rivalries, family drama and politics.
All that has sprung from the X-gene comes back to one thing: People can relate. Mutants undergo a transformation they don't control and have been misunderstood and often persecuted for it. What teenager hasn't felt the same?
The X-gene is seen across genders and ethnic groups and sexual orientations, and the X-teams have been among the most diverse casts in comics and other media.
It all started simply enough 50 years ago with five teenagers and their bald, wheelchair-using, telepathic mentor.
As Stan Lee's writing exclaimed, "Never, within the memory of man, was there a 'class' such as this! Never was there a 'teacher' such as Professor X! And never were there 'students' such as … the X-Men!"
[For the record, 11:05 a.m. Sept. 6: A previous version of this post misidentified a character in a photograph of "X-Men: The Last Stand" as Rogue, played by Anna Paquin. The character is Kitty Pryde, played by Ellen Page.]
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North African airline Tunisair, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has signed a firm contract with Airbus for the acquisition of three A350-800s, three A330-200s and ten A320s, as part of an important fleet development plan that will modernise and expand the fleet of this growing airline. With this acquisition, that follows an initial agreement announced last April, Tunisair is the third African airline to order the all-new A350 XWB. Tunisair currently already has 12 A320s, four A319s, and three A300-600s in operation.
The all-new, eco-efficient A350s will provide the right aircraft at the right time for the long-term development plans of Tunisair for long haul routes to North America and Asia. Meanwhile, the A330s will allow the airline to modernize its wide-body fleet and seamlessly enter the long haul market, shortly opening new routes to North America with the most modern and cost efficient aircraft available today. Furthermore, the A320s will allow Tunisair to renew and expand its regional operations with more efficient and cost effective aircraft complementing its current fleet.
With this firm order, Tunisair underlines its positive business outlook and can now start putting its plans into action and prepare for the future, both nearer and further out, with the right aircraft, said Mr. Chettaoui, President and CEO of Tunisair group. The A330s and later on the A350 will really allow us to develop our long haul market, while our A320 fleet, which is already performing extremely well, will be further expanded. And with these products, our customers will be benefiting from the most efficient and comfortable aircraft in the market today, he continued.
We are very proud of this renewed trust from Tunisair, which shows the value and strength of the Airbus Family concept, bringing operational commonality into their fleet and allowing for important cost savings and fleet efficiency, said Fabrice Brégier, Airbus Chief Operating Officer. Tunisair was one of our first customers. It has accompanied Airbus since its early days and grown with us. We are very happy to further strengthen our close ties well into the future, he added.
The longstanding relationship started in 1980, when Tunisair placed its first order for an Airbus A300B4. It has built up its Airbus fleet, with the first A320 order placed in 1988, one of the first orders for the type in Africa. In another pioneering move, with the order in 2006 for the A319 Extended-Range, Tunisair was the first airline to start operating this aircraft type in Africa, benefiting from Airbus continuous efforts for innovation and technological advancements.
The A350 XWB (Xtra Wide-Body) Family is Airbus response to widespread market demand for a series of highly efficient medium-capacity long-range wide-body aircraft. With a range of up to 8,300 nm / 15,400 km, it is available in three basic passenger versions: the A350-800 accommodating 270 passengers, the A350-900 seating 314, and the A350-1000 for 350 passengers in a typical three-class layout. The A350 has the widest fuselage in its category, offering unprecedented levels of comfort, the lowest operating costs and lowest seat mile cost of any aircraft in this market segment. Powered by two new generation Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines delivering each up to 92,000 lbs of thrust, the A350 XWB Family is designed to confront the challenges of high fuel prices, rising passenger expectations, and environmental concerns. Orders for the aircraft stand at more than 350 from over 20 customers.
With a true wide-body fuselage allowing very high comfort standards, the A330-200 is able to accommodate seat and class configurations to suit the diverse customer requirements. It has a range of up to 6,750 nm / 12,500 km with a full passenger load. Its large under-floor cargo holds can also carry standard pallets and containers side-by-side. It also has the excellent operational flexibility necessary to serve a wide range of route structures, providing operators with very low operating cost per seat. Its proven record of economy and superior passenger comfort provides operators with a significant competitive advantage in the market today.
Orders for the aircraft stand at more than 500.
The A320 Family, which includes the A318, A319, A320 and A321, is recognized as the benchmark single-aisle aircraft family. Each aircraft features fly by wire controls and all share a unique cockpit and operational commonality across the range. Around 6,200 Airbus A320 Family aircraft have been sold and more than 3,500 delivered to some 280 customers and operators worldwide, making it the worlds best selling commercial jetliner ever.
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To find out the total variability in our data set, we would perform this calculation for all of the 100 students' scores. However, the problem is that because we have both positive and minus signs, when we add up all of these deviations, they cancel each other out, giving us a total deviation of zero. Since we are only interested in the deviations of the scores and not whether they are above or below the mean score, we can ignore the minus sign and take only the absolute value, giving us the absolute deviation . Adding up all of these absolute deviations and dividing them by the total number of scores then gives us the mean absolute deviation (see below). Therefore, for our 100 students the mean absolute deviation is 12.81, as shown below:absolute deviation
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Ernst Barlach is an artist and sculptor mostly remembered today for his works protesting against the war; looking at his World War Two-era works, it is little wonder that most of them were confiscated by the Nazi Party as Degenerate Art. His experiences during World War transformed him from an enthusiastic pro-war supporter, to an active anti-war protester, and he used the horrors he experienced during the Great War as inspiration for his works. For instance, his Magdeburger Ehrenmal sculpture of 1929, shown here, was commissioned to be a memorial of World War I. Instead, based on his own experiences of being mobilized in the war, Barlach sculpted a number of figures – including three German soldiers, a fresh recruit, a young officer and a civilian – all bearing the marks of the pain, horror, and desperation of war. This caused a great deal of controversy, and the attacks on Barlach in response to this work continued right through until his death in 1938.
In 1917, only three years after painting his first pure abstract, Paul Klee was already being dubbed as the best of the new German artists. His works were particularly noteworthy for their sophisticated technique; Klee was heavily influenced by the Cubist art movement and by modern theories of color, meaning that his works always featured a rich texture of brightly colored triangular and circular patterns. In 1921, Klee began a successful career teaching art and 'Form' in the esteemed German academies Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Academy, respectively. It was this success that brought him to the attention of the Nazis, who raided his home and ensured he was dismissed from his teaching post. Klee lost 102 of his paintings seized to the Nazis, 17 of which were featured in the 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition.
Emil Nolde was actually a supporter of the Nazi Party from 1920 onward and openly expressed negative views about Jewish artists. Unfortunately for Nolde, he considered Expressionism to be a distinctively Germanic style, and his paintings reflected this. On this view, he and Hitler differed; Hitler was strongly opposed to all forms of modernism, and over 1000 of Nolde's works were removed from museums – despite the fact that, until this time, Nolde had been greatly esteemed within Germany. The heavy use of flowers and floral imagery throughout his works also reflects his continued interest with the works of Vincent Van Gogh – a fellow 'degenerate' artist. However, Nolde was not allowed to paint – even in private – after 1941.
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Under sunny skies and textbook man-made snow conditions Hilde-Katrine Engeli and Jasey Jay Anderson have won the parallel slalom Nor-Am Cup event held in Copper Mountain November 14.
The Norwegian reigning PSL World Champion edged off Switzerland's Stefanie Mueller to the second spot while Canada's Caroline Calve rounded out the podium as third.
On the men's side, Calve's fellow countryman, reigning Olympic Champion Jasey Jay Anderson impressively underlined that old men can ride.
The 37-years-old from Mt. Tremblant, Quebec, beat Nevin Galmarini (SUI) in the men's finals. Rok Flander, who won Tuesday's parallel giant slalom, came in third.
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The folks over at In Flex We Trust had a peculiar and fishy notification pop up on their Galaxy Tab 10.1 which promoted Instagram as a featured application on the Android Market. Naturally, we went over to the Market to see if Instagram was available, only to be disappointed that it wasn't quite there yet. Still, if the image at In Flex We Trust is legitimate (and that's a BIG if), we should be seeing Instagram land on our favorite Android devices as early as this month. Either way, the app has been a major priority for the company for 2 months now, and we know for sure that's it's coming sometime, now it's only a matter of when.
So why all the hype about Instagram? At its heart, Instagram is a fancy but basic photo editing tool that allows users to apply preset filters to photos to give them an artsy feel. Instagram's goal is to take the fun and quirkiness of the old polaroid cameras of yesteryear, and mix it with the fluid and instant sharing provided by social media and the internet. Sure, there are a slew of other services out there that do the same thing, but the fact that Instagram is the most popular photo service on iOS speaks volumes to the quality of the service. We predict it will enjoy the same widespread success on Android as it enjoys in iOS.
Anyone else out there excited for Instagram to make its way to Android, or are you already using something that gets the job done? Sound off in the comments.


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Work place violence needs to be taken very seriously both in the private sector and at government workplaces. Yesterday the Washington Post reported that new policies were being ordered for federal workplaces. Coincidently on the same day the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article urging plans to prevent workplace violence.
Traditional robbery -- which usually targets convenience stores and banks -- have caused an increase in security and the recession has driven potential thieves to even more desperate measures -- targeting business offices for robbery and theft. Offices can often provide easy access for thieves looking for expensive items like laptops, cell phones and even unattended cash.
Workplace violence perpetrated by thieves, disgruntled former employees, angry customers and even bitter spouses can destroy a company's reputation along with its employee's sense of safety and security. To prevent these occurrences The Security Product Depot suggest there are a number of steps that both employers and employees working together can develop unified policies and procedures to help make their places of business safer.
Everyone being involved and knowing there is a plan in place can in itself be a deterrent to workplace violence. To start developing a plan of action here are few tips and suggestions to get started:
- Take a physical security survey of your workplace and review current policies and procedures. Enlist the aid of security professionals to help identify possible security vulnerabilities in landscaping, lighting, employee and visitor access and signage.
- Conduct full national background checks on all employees and contractors annually and provide yearly training on workplace violence prevention.
- Install CCTV video surveillance systems to monitor both inside and outside your business. Video surveillance can be a deterrent to potential thieves. It can also be a valuable tool to help identify perpetrators and aid law enforcement before, during and after a robbery, theft or other crime.
- Implement an access control system and/or a visitor management system.
- Integrate these systems it with a CCTV camera system to immediately identify potential treats
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- Be aware at your workplace. If you notice someone unfamiliar to your office, someone without an I.D. card or behaving suspiciously, report it to your company's security team or your supervisor. Never approach anyone you think may pose a threat.
- If you ever feel unsafe walking to or from your car after work, walk with a trusted coworker or ask for a security escort.
- Keep personal items such as purses and wallets in a secure place out of sight. About 75 percent of workplace violence incidents are robbery-related, so consider the use of a locked cabinet or desk drawer to secure your valuables at all times.
- Request that security cameras be installed in common areas such as the company parking lot, lobbies, break rooms, and hall ways along with monitors so suspicious activity can easily be identified.
- Learn and become familiar with your company's policy on evacuations and lockdowns. Knowing what to do and where to go in an emergency can save lives.
In addition to installing a CCTV system to monitor and record suspicious behavior it is also very valuable not to overlook installing good security locks and implement emergency plans, a central emergency communication point and anonymous tip lines for employees to report suspicious behavior or activity.
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But, what if we told you that that's not the accurate definition of feedback? That in fact, feedback is a 360 conversation that draws attention to both successes and areas for improvement.Feedback is the cheapest, most powerful, yet, most under used management tool we have at our disposal . For direct reports, feedback is a way to validate their role, while fostering development. For managers, feedback from direct reports can help improve their coaching, while also giving insight into the team's engagement levels.
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By Laura Ungar Special to The Washington Post Monday, March 14, 2011; 4:58 PM
Tamika Felder figured she was young and healthy and could skip getting Pap smears for a few years when her job didn't offer health insurance.
She was wrong.
In 2001, at 25 years old, the television producer from Upper Marlboro, Md. was diagnosed with cervical cancer and needed a hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. She was left unable to bear children.
"I didn't want to lose my womb. I didn't want to lose my fertility. But I was tossed into this world of cancer," said Felder, now 35. "It changes you in such a profound way. You have to rebuild your whole life." THE QUOTE YOU NEED HERE, GIVEN THE REST OF THE PIECE, IS ABOUT HOW SHE COULDN'T AFFORD THE HEALTH INSURANCE. DID SHE NOT HAVE A PAP SMEAR OR DID SHE ALSO STOP SEEING HER OB/GYN? IF IT'S THE FORMER SHE SHOULD SAY HOW SHE WENT TO THE OB/GYN BUT DECLINEE THE PAP SMEAR BECAUSE IT WAS TOO MUCH AND SHE FIGURED SHE WAS YOUNG SHE'D BE FINE.
THIS GRAF SENTENCE NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED. Each year, about 12,000 U.S. women get cervical cancer and (ANOTHER? OR IS THIS PART OF THE 12,000) 4,000 die. YET DOCTORS VIEW CERVICAL CANCER AS A disease THAT WITH PROPER SCREENING can easily be prevented and treated. Pre-cancerous lesions and early cancer are easily detected through screening. Lesions can be removed in a minimally-invasive procedure before they turn into cancer. And there's a vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that causes most cervical cancer cases.
HOW ABOUT: BUT FELDER'S CASE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHY THIS MOSTLY CURABLE DISEASE IS STILL A THREAT/IS STILL KILING PEOPLE, DOCTORS SAY. TOO OFTEN WOMEN WHO DON'T HAVE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE OR THOSE WHO,HAVE not HEARD ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF REGULAR SCREENINGS—DESPITE YEARS OF PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS—DISCOVER THE PROBLEM WHEN THE DISEASE HAS ALREADY PROGRESSED TOO FAR .
I THINK THE STATS IN THE NEXT GRAF ARE CONFUSING AND UNPERSUASIVE BECAUSE YOU'RE MAKING BROAD ASSUMPTIONS (BLACKS ARE POOR FOR ONE) AND ASSERTIONS THAT YOU DON'T BACK UP FOR READERS. I THINK WHAT YOU REALLY NEED ARE STATS THAT SHOW THAT WHERE THE POVERTY LEVEL IS HIGHER, THERE IS A CLEAR RISE IN CERVICAL CANCER THAT DOCTORS ATTRIBUTE TO LACK OF GOOD HEALTH CARE. yOU COULD ATTRIBUTE THIS TO A STUDY OR THE CDC OR WHATEVER. AND THEN MAYBE STILL ADD: FOR INSTANCE, IN APPALACHIA, WHERE THE INCOME LEVEL IS XXX, THE RATE IS ETC...
(((ACCORDING TO XXX, rates of disease are highest in communities. African American women like Felder, get cervical cancer at a rate of 10.1 per 100,000, 25 percent higher than the national average; they die at a rate of 4.4 per 100,000, 83 percent higher than the national average. And in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, one of the hardest-hit IN WHAT WAY? locales, women in general get the disease at a rate 33 percent higher than the national average and die at a rate 37 percent higher. Some women there go decades without getting screened SAYS WHO?)))
Shobha Krishnan, a gynecologist at Columbia University's Barnard Health Services and president of the Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer, SAYS THE BEST WAY TO REDUCE CERVICAL CANCER RATES WOULD BE BY bringing help, screening and education to vulnerable women instead of waiting for them to seek it out. "There are uninsured and underinsured who lack access to care. There are people living in rural areas without access to care....If we can adapt what we do in the developing world, we might make more progress. Four thousand deaths is four thousand too many."
Cervical cancer used to be a much bigger scourge in America. In 1973, federal statistics show, the incidence rate was 14.2 per 100,000. YOU NEED SOMETHING HERE LIKE: THE RATE FELL BY ALMOST HALF AFTER DOCTORS BEGAN ROUTINELY PERFORMING PAP SMEARS, A QUICK SCRAPING OFF OF VAGINAL CELLS WHICH ARE THEN EXAMINED FOR ABNORMAL CHANGES, WHEN WOMEN CAME IN FOR ANNUAL GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMS (HOW COME THEY DID THIS? WHAT'S THE HISTORY OF PAP SMEARS? DID THEY GET EASIER TO DO OR WAS THEIR SOME STUDY THAT FIGURED OUT THAT PAP SMEARS WOULD REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE). AS A RESULT, THE RATE FELL TO 8.1 per 100,000 in 2003-07.
Seven in 10 cases OF CERVICAL CANCER are caused by two types of the sexually-transmitted viruses, the human papillomavirus, or HPV. Roughly half of all sexually-active people get HPV at some point in their lives, but relatively few develop pre-cancer or cancer. DO THEY KNOW WHY?For those who do, it's typically slow-growing, AND THERE EASILY DETECTABLE BEFORE THEY HAVE BECOME DANGEROUS BY ANNUALPAP SMEARS.
A 2008 CDC survey said about 83 percent of American women 18 and older got a Pap smear within the previous three years. Studies show that 50 percent to 70 percent of women who develop cervical cancer haven't had a Pap test in at least five years. CAN YOU GIVE ME A URL TO HYPERLINK TO FOR THIS?
A. Bennett Jenson, a University of Louisville physician who has researched cervical cancer for decades and helped invent the HPV vaccine THAT IS NOW RECOMMENDED FOR TEENAGE GIRLS AND BOYS?....., said even though the disease spreads slowly, it's important to get yearly Pap smears. The tests have a 30 percent false-negative rate, he said, meaning abnormalities can be missed 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME THEY COME UP WRONG??. He said YOUNGER women canSHOULD?? also protect themselves by getting vaccinated against HPV before becoming sexually active, and ALL WOMEN SHOULD CONSIDER getting HPV tests while sexually active. SO LET ME MAKE SURE I GET THIS: PEOPLE SHOULD GET PAP SMEARS AND HPV TESTS? WHY HPV TESTS WHEN RELATIVELY FEW PEOPLE WHO ARE INFECTED WITH HPV ACTUALLY GET CERVICAL CANCER. THAT SEEMS LIKE UNNECESSARY AND EXPENSIVE TESTING IN THIS DAY AND AGE.... ALSO, WHICH OF THESE TESTS ARE COVERED BY INSURANCE. i THINK THE VACCINE IS NOT, RIGHT?
OF COURSE FOR WOMEN WHO DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE OR FOR WHOM THE COSTS OF THESE TESTS, EVEN WITH THE INSURANCE, ARE TOO HIGH, THESE SUGGETIONS MAY BE DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW. HOWEVER, There are programs that can help, including the CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, which screens under-served WHAT DOES UNDERSERVED MEAN women.
Still, "there are a lot of people who fall through the cracks," said Suzy Madden, who works with women in HEALTH/SUPPORT/WHATEVER program in rural Kentucky WHERE RATES OF CERVICAL CANCER ARE PARTICULARLY HIGH BECAUSE OF LACK OF PREVENTATIVE SCREENING. said. "They make too much to qualify, but not enough to pay for a doctor visit themselves."
In Felder's case, said she got Pap smears regularly in college WHEN COVERED BY HER SCHOOL HEALTH PLAN? OR HER MOTHER'S?. But when she went off her mother's insurance, she skipped screenings for three years SINCE THEY COST XXX. She wasn't too worried when she began having bad menstrual cramps and lower back pain. After landing a full-time job with insurance she went in for a REGULAR GYNECOLOGICAL CHECKUP.. She could hardly believe the cancer diagnosis, and sought several other opinions.
"I was thinking I was in some bad movie," she said.
Felder said three things would have made a difference to her—being better educated about cervical cancer and its causes, having insurance at a critical time, and not taking chances with her health because she felt young and invincible.
But experts said changing attitudes, getting health messages out to everyone, and especially improving access to health care are some of the thorniest challenges in health care.
Krishnan said the new health-care law should eventually mean fewer uninsured women.
"We hope that...providing coverage for millions more will reduce the number of cervical cancer cases in this country," she said.
Felder is committed to doing her part. In 2005, she started a nonprofit group called Tamika & Friends, which seeks to raise awareness of cervical cancer and its link to HPV.
"I don't know if we'll ever eliminate it completely. But I think we can lower it," Felder said. "This is a preventable cancer."
THIS SHOULD BE IN THE SIDEBAR: According to the CDC, about 33 million doses of Gardasil were distributed nationally as of mid-February, and 18,354 reports were made to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System about problems following inoculation. Most involved problems such s fainting and pain at the injection site that were not considered serious, but 8 percent were considered serious, involving problems such as blood clots and Guillain-Barré syndrome. The CDC stressed that problems reported after the shots may or may not have been caused by them, and recommends vaccination.
"If everyone had the vaccine, that would stamp it out," Jenson said. "We could cure it like polio."
Felder agreed the problem is daunting, but said she's also committed to doing her part. In 2005, she started a nonprofit group called Tamika & Friends, which seeks to raise awareness of cervical cancer and its link to HPV.
"I don't know if we'll ever eliminate it completely. But I think we can lower it," Felder said. "This is a preventable cancer."
Laura Ungar is the medical writer with The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.


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William Kristol is founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, a journal of politics and ideas located in Washington, D.C. He is also a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday, a contributor for the Fox News Channel and a monthly columnist for the Washington Post. Before starting the Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush Administration, and to Education Secretary William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol was on the faculty of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1983-1985) and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania (1979-1983).
Mr. Kristol has published widely in areas ranging from foreign policy to constitutional law to political philosophy. He has co-edited several books, including The Neoconservative Imagination (with Christopher DeMuth, 1995), Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (with Mark Blitz, 2000), Present Dangers (with Robert Kagan, 2000), Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary (with E. J. Dionne, Jr., 2001), and The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (with Eric Cohen, 2002). He is the co-author, with Lawrence Kaplan, of the best-selling 2003 book, The War Over Iraq.
Mr. Kristol received both his A.B. (1973) and Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard University.
Gary Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years as Under Secretary of Education and as President Reagan's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor. While serving at the Education Department, Bauer was named Chairman of President Reagan's Special Working Group on the Family. His report, "The Family: Preserving America's Future," was presented to the President in December 1986.
A staunch supporter of President Bush's war on terrorism, Bauer is also a leading Christian advocate for a strong and secure Israel. Since the atrocities of September 11th, Bauer has devoted considerable time and energy to strengthening the shared values of the Israeli/American alliance.
In 1996, Bauer launched the Campaign for Working Families, a political action committee dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life conservatives to public office. In its first two years of operation, Campaign for Working Families raised $7 million with 90,000 individual contributors and today remains one of America's largest conservative political action committees.
Bauer took his unapologetically pro-family, pro-life message across the country in 1999 and 2000 into the Republican presidential debates and primaries. Stressing the sanctity of life and traditional marriage, Bauer made family-friendly policies and combating judicial activism key platforms of his campaign.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Officials in tornado-stricken Oklahoma cities are now dealing with looters who are stealing items ranging from copper wire to jewelry.
Moore police spokesman Jeremy Lewis and Mayor Glenn Lewis said 17 arrests have been made on misdemeanor charges of looting in Moore since the May 20 EF5 tornado hit.
"We are seeing people take everything from copper to pipes to scrap metal to all kinds of electronics," Lewis said. "It's a misdemeanor crime and not a crime we usually have to deal with."
Jon Fisher's home was flattened in the May 20 storm that killed 24 people and his neighborhood has been among those targeted by looters, mostly homes on the edge of damaged areas.
"The houses are still standing and looters are kicking in doors and taking TVs and appliances," Fisher said. "They arrested two guys in my neighborhood the night of the tornado who were carrying out a love seat and couch."
Fisher said his insurance company told him to remove all valuables from his house as fast as possible, particularly items with sentimental value or those not easily replaced.
Moore police also dealt with looters after another massive EF5 tornado struck the city in 1999.
In May, police immediately set up positions and checked identification of people trying to enter locked-down tornado-damaged areas. The Oklahoma Insurance Commission also issued badges to assessors and workers to make them easily identified when working in damaged neighborhoods.
Lewis said authorities have made more arrests this year than after the 1999 tornado, possibly because the 2013 tornado struck a wider area and because police are more attentive.
"It's mostly neighbors who are calling in the crimes to the police and we are catching them," Lewis said.
Three Virginia men - Steven Corky Daniels, 36; Steve Costello, 44 and Justin Wagner, 25 - were among those arrested for looting copper wire and scrap metal in Moore.
Maria Lopez, 30, of Norman, Oklahoma, was charged with disturbing a disaster area on May 30 in Moore after neighbors reported seeing her and her children sort through rubble.
Alleged looters closer to home were also arrested. Moore Police arrested Moore resident Edward Dean McDonald on May 29 on misdemeanor looting charges.
Shawnee police said they have made no looting arrests since a tornado struck that town on May 19.
Moore City Manager Steve Eddy said crime is not as widespread as some may think.
"We learned from the first tornado, and we have officers in that area 24/7," Eddy said. "We have no tolerance for it. We're not going to shoot them on sight or anything, but we will arrest anyone suspected of it."
On May 31, a second EF5 tornado near El Reno, Oklahoma, and severe storms left 21 people dead.
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