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...Since 1994 Roger has devoted two Sunday columns a month to reviews of Great Movies. In 2001, when he decided to collect 100 of these critiques into a book, he asked Mary, who had been running the Museum of Modern Art's Film Still Archive since 1968, to choose the photos for each film and write an essay about the glamour and preservation of movie stills. In early 2002, just as the book was to be published, Mary was abruptly laid off by the Museum in a move many saw as punishment for her very active role in a strike...
...Indeed, sources tell TIME Washington bureau chief Jay Carney that while the billionaire Mayor has not yet decided for certain that he will run, his becoming an independent now is part of his plan to make sure that the option is there. In order to collect the signatures to get on the ballot in various states as an independent, Bloomberg has to be officially "unaffiliated...
...waiting to ferry police trainers and students to the academy about three miles away. The blast, which could be heard at least a mile away, was detonated by a suicide bomber. Investigators say the bomber was pretending to be a beggar, and tried to get on the bus to collect alms from the passengers, a common practice on public transport. When the police stopped him from mounting the steps, he detonated the bomb, which appears to have been packed with ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel the roof of the bus off and hurl...
...those tests take you only so far. Suppose you could do more than just collect the enemy cells. Suppose you could interrogate them for information. That's what the new tests make possible. Researchers are starting to identify, for example, proteins on the surface of tumor cells that might signal a faster-growing, more aggressive type of cancer. Other protein signatures may hint at a more advanced tumor that is poised to metastasize. Both can help doctors craft more personalized therapies that match the right treatments to the right patients at the right time, improving effectiveness, lowering the costs...
Perhaps the biggest appeal of these assays, however, has to do with their ease and simplicity. Currently, doctors seeking the same information must collect a sample of the tumor tissue, something that isn't always possible if it's very small or inaccessible or its precise location isn't known. Then there is the danger that the physical act of tissue sampling can dislodge cells and cause them to spread the disease. A blood draw bypasses all these risks...