Word: effect
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...rejected in 1973 and 1974, will at last be among the new faces on that campus in September. For Bakke, who submitted no further medical school applications after receiving 11 rejections in 1974, the Supreme Court's 5-4 order that Davis admit him was clearly a victory. The effect the decision will have on a broad variety of affirmative action policies across the country, however, is somewhat less clear...
...Bakke decision, for all its palliative effect, will come to be regarded as a display of the Court's genius, it is also cause for alarm. Its condemnation of quotas in admissions programs could have an unexpected effect on hiring practices. Even more important, the kind of flexible admissions policy Powell finds so compelling leaves the door open for the concept of diversity to shift away from the present definition, leaving the minority applicant high and dry. Such a shift does not seem likely today, but it is troublesome; they did leave the door open...
...correlations between what is observed in the petri dish and in the patient." Tumor cells taken from nine people with myeloma, a bone marrow malignancy, and nine with ovarian cancer were exposed to varying concentrations of several anticancer drugs, then cultured in petri dishes. The researchers compared the effects of the drugs on the cultured cells with the patients' responses to the same drugs. In all but one case, the effects matched. If the drug prevented cancer cells from growing in the culture, it also killed them in the patient. If the drug had no effect in the petri...
...needed to verify and refine the technique. Says Salmon: "This is not now a clinical test available in every hospital. Until it has had adequate testing, it should be considered only a promising research tool." Still, that promise is exciting. A Journal editorial accompanying the paper notes that "an effective and practical predictive test for antitumor agents would have a profound effect on the treatment of cancer...
There may come a time when you think a trip to a French restaurant is the only way to counter the effect of Union food on your morale and your palate. You begin to mull over all the familiar names--Ferdinand's, Chez Jean, and so on. Forget them. Go instead to Autre Chose, a relative newcomer to the Cambridge scene, located at 1105 Mass...