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...last week backed its appeal with some pertinent statistics. In a 25-year overview of cancer mortality figures, it reported that cancer death rates seem to be leveling off and, for some forms of the disease, actually declining, as in the case of stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase in the number...
...main value of the laboratory test, says Salmon, is that it can help the physician plan individual courses of treatment. For example, only 20% of people with cancer of the colon or rectum respond to the drug fluorouracil; the other 80% suffer needlessly from the drug's toxic effects. The new technique may have another benefit: it could be used to evaluate new anticancer drugs without endangering cancer patients...
...Panama's economy is weighted toward service industries, and there lies the biggest growth potential. Some businessmen think the government should expand the single-track Panama Railroad to handle more traffic in the containers borne by ships too large to navigate the canal. The free-trade zone in Colon already contributes 7½ % of the gross domestic product; the zone could spread onto American-occupied land near by that would be ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that...
Directors themselves are quick to assert that these tactics vary from useless to worse than useless. Colon explains that if he is asked quietly to explain his call he is glad to. But an angry request (or should it be demand) for explanation only makes him tense. And though he naturally tries to remain objective, he says "I know I'm annoyed...
There is one kind of psychological manipulation that Colon does admit may have some affect. He acknowledges that he is affected when coaches or fencers who never complain or voice their dissatisfaction with a call do, for once, raise an eyebrow. It is impossible, Colon says, to dismiss their judgement as easily as that of those who from the frequency of their complaints, you know are biased...