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...atom. But over those three decades, researchers have come up with one potential miracle cure after another?only to suffer one disappointment after another. Aside from surgery, which almost invariably leaves behind some malignant cells, the standard treatment for most cancers continues to be radiation and chemotherapy?relatively crude disease-fighting weapons that have limited effectiveness and leave patients weak and nauseated...
...like any other cells, need oxygen and nutrients to survive. At first they eat their way through healthy tissue, looking for blood vessels to tap for these essentials. Eventually, though, they start to grow their own capillaries and vessels, like oil companies eager to guarantee a steady flow of crude...
...college, I sought the same kind of facility--a knowledge hyperlinked and accumulative beyond the stark ends of terms, which opened itself continually to the project of intelligent remaking. Certainly mine is a less elegant shoring, a less grand collection than stacks of books or caryatids. But this crude and hasty assemblage is itself the urge to seek out Athenian spaces, Greek or otherwise--spaces from which history, at length and in great detail, allows itself to be made and rewritten...
...Pressed, Cheney gave the oldest reason in the book: supply and demand. Crude oil inventories are piling up, the pre-Memorial Day maintenance season at U.S. refineries is coming to a close, and barring widespread breakdowns, the much-feared $3 gallon of gas may not materialize this summer after all (Prices in fact are currently leveling...
This time, it's not OPEC. At $28 per bbl., crude oil prices may be high. But America's current gasoline-supply problem is its own. No new refineries have been built in over two decades; indeed, the opposite has happened as refiners took excess capacity off the market. Inventories are nearing historic lows. Any disruption in the refining process or distribution system chokes gas supplies, driving prices...