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...sometimes wish you were still a small-venue troubadour instead of a really rich guy with a lot of toys and way more responsibilities? -Linda McDaniel in South Fulton, Tenn.No. You get dealt a deck of cards and you go where you wanna go. And, I can be a small-time troubadour and still be the same person. I'm looking at the next ten years of what I'm going to be doing performing-wise, and if you look at what has just happened, I mean, I'm playing less large shows. In the beginning of this year...
...these migrating cells die during the journey. Others are more menacing--pioneers programmed to seed new growth in distant tissues. Either way, as epithelial cells--closely packed, multilayered cells of which most solid tumors are made--they are oddballs in their new fluid environment. "It's like splitting a deck of cards into red and black suits," says Dr. Daniel Hayes, director of the breast-cancer program at the University of Michigan, about separating these epithelial tumor cells from the blood. "Blood is made up of different tissues, so we look for epithelial cells that shouldn't be there...
...addition to serving special groups of travelers, luxury properties are currently experimenting with the concept of butlers. The 375-room Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, in Miami Beach, Fla., offers sun worshippers a one-of-a-kind tanning butler. This employee circulates around the pool deck and beach Thursdays through Sundays during peak tanning hours, offering free sunscreen, cool water misters and eyeglass cleaners...
...means more itineraries--and money for us--rather than sailing the Riviera coast." Like the pioneer's 16 other companies, including easyJet, easyBus and easyHotel, easyCruise is based on the assumption that for some travelers, money and convenience trump amenities, which in the case of easyCruise rules out a deck pool and even portholes in budget cabins...
...deck was stacked from the beginning,” he said, referring to Petersen’s considerable publicity efforts aimed at inducing people to vote on the referendum. “In my view I thought...that if you campaign too hard for something you really lose the measure of genuine student support behind it.” Anderson added that, the referendum notwithstanding, he believed no amount of UC advocacy would lead to calendar change...