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Though Perlstein’s piece points to the college experience’s slide toward the vocational as a primary agent in its downfall, both the Times and mtvU acknowledged—perhaps ironically—that entrants may rightfully view the contest as a chance to propel their post-graduate aspirations...
Hutchinson's team, led by Dr. Jim Olson, spent three years developing the compound and tested it in a variety of human tumors grown in mice. So far, the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers, and they expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...
...making war. In the 1970s, the science of cloud seeding acquired a whiff of the snake oil, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. And by the following decade, it had fallen out of favor (its use in Vietnam, which reminded some people of Agent Orange, probably didn't help much), and funding fell off with...
...glad Bush commuted Libby's sentence. There are too many people in U.S. prisons already. Besides, I don't feel any less safe with Scooter remaining loose and weird on the streets. But if I were in any way complicit in exposing the identity of a U.S. secret agent to our enemies during a time of war - which is in effect what happened with the outing of CIA operative Plame - I would be called a traitor and duckwalked to an electric chair, gas chamber or some form of lethal injection. Sterling Greenwood, ASPEN, COLORADO...
...cancer cells use to eat away normal tissue to make space for the cancer to grow," he says. So far the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers: gliomas and medulloblastomas in the brain, sarcomas in muscles, and prostate and colon cancers. They expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...