61.   The following month then-FDA commissioner David Kessler cited the documents when he ordered a moratorium on the sale of silicone breast implants.

62.   The largest study by far of silicone breast implants and disease finds that if implants pose any health risk at all, it is a very small one.

63.   The most common post-implant problem was contraction of scar tissue around the silicone implants, making the breast hard and misshapen.

64.   The most definitive study yet of the health effects of silicone breast implants has failed to find any association between the implants and connective tissue diseases.

65.   The saline implants were generally presumed safer than silicone implants, because they leak only salt water, as opposed to silicone gel, when they rupture.

66.   The same is true with silicone breast implants.

67.   The third is a contemporary American woman whose silicone breast implants enhance her popularity with men but might jeopardize her health.

68.   There is abundant evidence that silicone implants ruptured at rates far higher than initially suggested by manufacturers.

69.   There also were miscues in the development of silicone implants that no amount of public relations could smooth over.

70.   They say silicone breast implants are causing a new and ill-defined disease that has not been detected in epidemiological studies.