Word: colonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FEAR REIGNED for the larger part of the campaign. In a style that has become far too common on the island, the state-hooders employed defamatory tactics, accusing Governor Rafael Hernandez-Colon and his Popular Democratic Party of rebuffing the United States and pursuing a separatist ideological course. Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Rosello, the prostatehood New Progressive Party unleashed a campaign of fear, aimed at equating the "Si," or affirmative response, with a vote of confidence to the governor for an additional term as well as an increase in crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, unemployment, social upheaval...
Offering the referendum, no one doubts, was politically motivated. Governor Hernandez-Colon's stakes for issuing it were very high on a personal as well as partisan level. He knew that losing would mean his political death and gravely weaken the Popular Democratic Party. But he had no reason to expect defeat and was pressured to assert the validity of the commonwealth option as an alternative to statehood...
Rosenberg and his team have permission from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to treat 15 people with TNF-gene- altered cells, including patients with advanced kidney or colon cancer. Another 15 individuals with the same diseases may receive injections of tumor cells that have been genetically altered to produce interleukin-2 -- a protein that stimulates tumor-fighting lymphocytes -- instead of TNF. All the patients have failed to respond to standard therapy...
...from the projects, we from the drug-ridden neighborhoods have beaten the statistics," declared class valedictorian Efrain Colon Jr. "This is no stepping-stone. This is a milestone. We have made...
...make any model system you want," says Leder, including mice to study colon cancer, leukemia, lung cancer or any other form of the disease...