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...Answer to Cancer: Prevention The extraordinary missed opportunity in fighting cancer centers on the lack of primary prevention: avoid, reduce and eliminate exposure to carcinogens [Oct. 6]. Shamefully, the National Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancer, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment. Mortality for certain cancers has decreased slightly in the past few years, but the incidence of cancer has not. With more than 100,000 chemicals and formula combinations on the consumer market and less than 5% being evaluated for cancer-causing potential, now is past the time for identifying chemical and environmental carcinogens. James...
Earlier in September, NASA announced that Opportunity would wander farther than it ever had in the search for more data. The rover is embarking on a long trek to a crater roughly 7 miles (12 km) away. That's about the total amount of ground it has covered since it arrived. Even if it follows a beeline route, its slow speed and the starts and stops it must make along the way limit it to about 110 yd. (100 m) per day--meaning it will need two years to get where it's going. Still, the trip should be easier...
Inflation or Deflation The amount of money that European governments and the U.S. are promising to put into the financial system is so vast - close to $2 trillion, if the cash injections and state guarantees are added up - that it could end up stoking inflation. Consumer prices have anyway been climbing for much of this year, as the cost of everything from oil to milk and cereal has risen. That trend is now changing as the global economy falters. Inflation leaped to a 16-year high in the U.K. in September, but elsewhere in Europe it has slowed, and economists...
...current outreach to low-income students was at its maximum and, in turn, produced a “very, very strong applicant pool.” Fitzsimmons also said that the fee colleges must pay in order to participate in the program is a deterrent. “That amount of money you pay to a program is money that could go into financial aid,” he said.Though lacking concrete figures, he said he knew of a “reasonably large” number of QuestBridge participants who ended up attending Harvard anyway through the regular application...
...house in Delhi, asked, “Daddy, why are we here? Nothing is ever happening here.” Afterward, Goldman inquired about the role of diaspora communities in economic development while Pande brought up the impact of widespread corruption on entrepreneurship. As moderator, Bhabha injected a fair amount of humor into the proceedings, yet he also provided one of the most probing questions: “Why is the China-India question such a hot topic?” Once audience members were invited to participate, the lively discussion continued for nearly two hours...