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...fetus in the mother's circulatory system, similar tests can detect proteins on cancer cells released by a tumor that is itself only dozens of cells large. Most of 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...
...However, for all of its success, Google's online dominance has been limited to search. In web-based e-mail, for example, Google's service, Gmail, is in a distant fifth place to leader Yahoo! Mail, which is over 12 times the size of Gmail in terms of visits. Google has barely made a peep in social networking; MySpace, the #1 social networking site, is over 300 times the size of Google's Orkut service. Even mainstream information such as Google Finance is an order of magnitude smaller in visits than the industry leader in financial information Yahoo! Finance...
...What Hilles shows is that undergraduates want central locations because the value of a student center is that everyone is there and using it, and if it’s distant, then it will be of limited appeal,” Petersen says, adding that the administration has not made finding centralized locations enough of a priority...
...four years as co-Master of Currier, Patricia O’Brien oversaw changes reflecting the House’s growing reputation as a close-knit place adored by residents despite its location in the distant Quad...
...longer the sixties and many of us were as grade-conscious and professionally oriented as your generation is now,” Matory says. “We were quite distant from a 1968 campus...