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...challenge is to select the useful from the useless, the primary sources from the endless reading lists, the major theorems from the pile of proofs. I've put it off until the last minute, and now I have to go through all of it an dig out what's worth remembering. But how can one tell what's important and what's not? Here, for example, are a few things that I discovered while reviewing my notes...
...friends from home to check her collection of web sites daily, scanning for new tidbits of information? What causes my mother (a mass media misanthrope) to admit that the opening day is something she would consider taking off of work for? What drives the guys across the hall to dig around for a second copy of the Time magazine "Phantom Menace" cover issue so that they can get all the photos that were on the backs of photos they had already cut out to hang all over their walls...
Some insurers, however, had long dug in their heels over transplant therapy, and last week's announcement may make them dig deeper still. The five new studies looked at two types of breast cancer: high-risk cases, in which the disease has spread to 10 or more lymph nodes; and metastatic cases, in which it's migrated even further. Of the three studies that focused on high-risk cases--surveying a total of 1,462 breast-cancer patients--only one found a statistically significant advantage for transplant therapy. The two studies that focused on metastatic disease showed no real advantage...
Sometimes when you play a great team, you dig down deep and play a season-breaking game. Sometimes, a great team simply plays great...
...more they build up an image in the good times, the deeper the grave they dig in the bad. Sports media works in black and white--you win or you lose; you're quiet and hard-working or you're disruptive and lazy; you're Jordan or you're Iverson, hero or villain...