Word: block
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...approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a weapon against ovarian cancer in 1992--cause the same suicidal result by deactivating a molecular machine that, just before cell division, separates the DNA in each chromosome into two separate strands. Still other drugs known as topoisomerase-1 inhibitors block a slightly earlier step in the DNA replication process, the uncoiling of the double-stranded DNA molecule...
...results with TPA, or tissue plasminogen activator, have been nothing short of astonishing. The drug dissolves blood-vessel clots that block blood flow to the brain. "This is a particularly exciting time," says Dr. Mark Dyken, professor emeritus of neurology at Indiana University and the editor of the research journal Stroke. "In the past, most doctors thought of a stroke as the end, and that nothing could be done...
...better to have a sham vote than no vote at all. "There are two ways to approach the elections," says Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, John Kornblum. "You can approach them idealistically, as an exercise in pure democracy. Or you can view them as a building block in a flawed but so far very successful peace process." Some observers are less optimistic. Says Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords: "Suppose a reasonably free and fair election chooses people who are pledged to separatism, when the Dayton accords call for a single country? These people...
...celebration continues Friday with a Citywide Golf Tournament at the Fresh Pond Golf Course to earn money for the United Special Olympics. The following Friday, September 20, Cantabrigians will join clarinetist and longtime resident Stan Strickland and his band Ascension for a block party on Mass. Ave. outside City Hall. The celebration will conclude September 28 with Family Day, a day of sports events, children's games, dancing lessons and arts-and-crafts shows at Mayor Thomas W. Danehy Park...
...months, Eliot Sq. Development Corp. has been pushing the commission for permission to demolish several structures in the block bounded by JFK, Mt. Auburn and Winthop Streets, but has had to meet Cambridge's strict guidelines on alterations to buildings more than 50 years old, which in this case apply to both Grendel's and Tweeter...