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...decades the war against cancer has been waged with three often brutal weapons, the so-called cut, burn and poison methods of rooting out tumors: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But slowly, in laboratories and medical centers around the world, a fourth approach has been evolving. The idea: rallying the body's own immunological forces to destroy malignant cells. Last week scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., revealed some of the most promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...feed you after midnight and throw water on you and you won't burn down our town...
...preferences before your loved ones go out to squander their money on something that will make you the laughingstock of your school, church or place of employment. You should be firm: inform your particular nuclear unit that you will douse the tree with water, short-circuit the lights and burn down the living room if you do not get what you want. It's best to ask for a lot of records because the stores sometimes run out, leaving you again at the mercy of the buyer...
These concerns are understandable, but protecting freedom of expression is essential. Whether zealots burn books or threaten to bomb movie theaters, bowing to their demands is unnacceptable, particularly if they threaten violence. Capitulation to extremists does a disservice to the community and sets a dangerous precedent for those who wish to obstruct free expression...
...group of Harvard researchers is experimenting with a technique which uses lasers to burn out the troublesome plaques. Although, the idea is not entirely new, it has always been plagued by the problem of how to destroy the plaque itself without damaging the normal tissue around it in the process. At the Washington conference, Martin Prince and his colleagues from Massachusetts General announced the success of a new technique...