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...also encouraging, he said, that physicians had found no evidence that the President's cancer had spread beyond the section of the bowel removed during surgery. It was particularly significant that no malignant cells were found in the 15 lymph nodes in the excised section of the colon. These bean-shape structures act to screen the lymph, a watery fluid drained from between the body's cells, for bacteria and abnormal cellular matter. The absence of cancer cells in the nodes suggests that any cells that may have been shed from Reagan's tumor had not reached the bloodstream...
...chronicle of two decades in the life of the Hunter family in a shabby patch of North London, the novel's real vitality lies in the relationship between twin sisters Georgia and Bessi. Evans has a sharp eye for the quotidian charms - the strawberry-scented beanbag chairs and baked-bean sandwiches - of the girls' childhood in "the wilderness of Neasden." School friends quickly develop a written classification system to tell the sisters apart, but the twins remain oddities; classmates can't even spell Bessi's name right: "Georgia has big ears, Bessie don't." But the twins' suburban idyll...
...officials insist numbers no more than 12,000. Today, U.S. officials concede that the insurgency can't be defeated militarily, and it has long been evident to the Europeans and others that Washington's military resources are badly overstretched by the mission in Iraq - and that Washington's bean-counters are not amused by the $5 billion monthly bill for its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran may be sandwiched between Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's not acting as if it believes it's in any danger of being invaded. And in light of the difficulties it has faced...
...expansions for America's Army three or four times a year, and to keep the programmers on point it holds events like these--they're known internally as green-ups--every few months. Over the course of three days, they eat MREs (the consensus: chili macaroni good, black bean and rice burrito very very bad), ride in Black Hawks ("That feeling has to be there," Bossant says. "We need that zoom!") and wander around a frozen meadow in the dark wearing night-vision goggles. One of the game designers noticed that the goggles throw off less green light than...
...live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total of $32 for their culled birds, less than they borrowed to buy them as ducklings last year. "Now we have nothing, not even enough money to buy ingredients for one banh chung [bean paste and pork] cake," says Truong. Village chief Huynh Van Tiep, who is overseeing the cull, says the Nguyens aren't alone. "Our whole village depended on poultry," he says. "I feel terrible asking people to kill their livelihood, but public health is more important...