Word: colon
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...arguments pro and con are not easily grasped by most Americans, who do not quite understand what it feels like to be a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico. While living on the mainland, both Calderon and Colon could vote in federal elections. They lost that right by going home; the island elects one delegate to the House of Representatives, who can vote only in committee. Moving back also means a lower level of federal benefits. But there are some advantages. While in the States, the two men had to pay federal income tax; on the island they pay none...
...combination of the antibody, acting as a guidance system that homes in on tumor cells, and doxorubicin, as the lethal payload, knocked out many kinds of advanced cancer in mice, including colon, lung and breast tumors that had spread to other organs. In earlier animal experiments, researchers were able to cure only those cancers that had not been growing very long or that had not metastasized. "One of the problems that have held back the field for a long time is that we were never sure that well-established solid tumors could be eliminated," says Dr. David Scheinberg, chief...
Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is that rarest of books: it actually explores everything after that obligatory colon in the title. The book, which is almost never dull, tracks the growth of Nintendo from a Japanese playing-card company founded in 1889 to an international video-game behemoth that by 1992 consistently earned after-tax profits of more than $500 million a year. That's more than all U.S. movie studios combined and more than IBM, Apple or Microsoft...
Eventually, even people who have no family history of colon cancer could benefit from the current findings. Once all the genes whose damage can lead to intestinal tumors have been discovered, researchers may be able to detect such dangerous changes whenever they occur. "DNA testing as we know it now is not cost efficient," says Dr. Funmi Olopade, professor of oncology at the University of Chicago. "But the way technology is moving, 10 years from now this will no longer be such an exorbitant test to perform...
...inherited defect triggers colon tumors and other cancers...