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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the most critical stage in the life of a tumor comes after it expands to about a million cells. At this point, it is "much smaller than a BB," says Dr. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School. This tiny mass -- known as a carcinoma in situ, literally cancer in place -- is malignant, but not yet dangerous. Why? Because the cells at the center of the tumor are too far from the bloodstream to obtain essential nutrients, they are less vigorous. Like a society with zero population growth, a carcinoma in situ adds about as many new cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...birds disappeared from Tony's neighborhood in central Omaha when he was in the fourth grade, shortly after he got his first BB gun. "I guess I shot a lot of animals," he says sheepishly. Now he totes a sawed-off, 20-gauge, pump-action shotgun he bought for $20 last January from a 16-year-old friend. "The grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...BB SO Ofson cf 4 0 0 0 0 3 Gass rf 5 0 1 0 0 2 Christensen 1b 4 1 2 0 0 1 Somer ville c 3 0 2 1 1 0 Mendell if 4 0 2 0 0 2 Pendieton pr/if 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mueller 2b 3 0 0 0 1 2 Sabanosh 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 Lepard oh 4 0 0 0 0 2 Hinteregger ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 Katz ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 TOTALS 35 1 8 1 2 16 HARVARD...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Baseball Silences MIT, 9-1, at Soldiers | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...HARVARD AB R H BI BB SO Zarate cf 3 1 0 0 0 0 Weidenbach ph 2 1 1 0 0 0 Hill rf 3 2 2 2 1 0 Morgan 1b 6 3 3 3 0 0 Giardi sadoski 6 0 2 1 0 1 Crowley dh 4 1 3 2 0 0 Parrot ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 Corres pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 Giamarco ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 Bernhard 2b 5 1 2 2 0 0 Andriola c 2 1 0 0 0 0 Brisette ph/c...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Fenway Magic: Baseball Mauls BU | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

...Falcone (2), Butt (2), Mertick, Fox. DP: Holy Cross 1. Harvard 2. Los: Holy Cross 8. Harvard 9. 2B: Hill (2). Brissette. 3B: None. HR: None. CS: Raldson. Fox, Weissman, Levy. CORNELL IP M R ER BB SO Liebler. L 5 6 4 3 4 3 McElligott 3 4 2 1 1 0 HARVARD IP M R ER BB SO Davidson, W (1-2) 6 5 0 0 0 7 Allen 1 1 0 0 2 1 Mitchelf 1 1 2 2 3 0 Cicero 1 1 0 0 0 0 WP: Mitchell. PB: None. HBP: None. HBP: None...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Baseball Tops Error-Prone Holy Cross, 6-2 | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

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