Word: appearantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although both the Senate and the House have held hearings on cable TV in recent months, no new regulatory laws appear imminent. But even in the free market, cable is facing competitive threats. The burgeoning videocassette market is challenging cable for viewers. Local telephone companies yearn for a piece of the action; they are fighting to remove restrictions that prevent them from entering the cable business. As cable booms, the biggest threat to programmers may come from the industry's expansion. With channels and programs proliferating, the multitude of choices will make it harder for any but the best programmers...
...include warnings to wear goggles and limit exposure, are patchily enforced. Most sun- lamp worshipers assume they are protected because the type of radiation produced in most tanning machines is largely UVA (alpha) light instead of UVB (beta) light, which quickly reddens fair skin. Although alpha rays do not appear to burn, says Dr. Michael Franzblau, president of the Congress of California Dermatological Societies, "they're even more dangerous because of the damage they cause to underlying tissue." UVA, he explains, can cause allergic reactions in people on medications as commonplace as tranquilizers...
Rosenberg is working on a new and potentially more powerful therapy called TILs, for tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. In tests on mice, he notes, these cells appear "50 to 100 times more potent than LAK." TILs are actually killer T cells that, like LAK cells, can attack cancer cells. To produce them, researchers expose malignant cells removed from the patient to IL-2. The tissue includes killer T cells that have launched a weak attack; with a sharp boost from the IL-2, they replicate and proceed to destroy the cancer. A month later, the newly potent T cells, vastly increased...
...more flagrant example of Harvard's disinformation appears in a graph entitled, "Harvard Non-Union vs. Union Staff Salary Increases 1980-1987." At first glance, salary increases seem to be steadily growing over the years. But a look down at the x-axis reveals that the years are numbered backwards from 1987 to 1980. Although salary increases appear to have grown, they really have declined...
...private universities.) Even from within the Stanford community, there are those who feel that the place is perhaps a little "too California," as one faculty member puts it. Senior Andrew Patzman points to an intellectual schizophrenia: "There is a certain pressure to be relaxed and to make your work appear effortless...