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...Anderson study highlights the combined effect of three major factors in improving breast-cancer survival: age, type of tumor and stage of cancer. Taken together, this suite of criteria makes sense, says Bedrosian. Women with estrogen-positive cancers can be treated with hormone-therapy drugs like tamoxifen or, if they are postmenopausal, the new aromatase inhibitors, which block the production of cancer-enhancing estrogen in the body. Women whose tumors lack the estrogen receptor, however, cannot take advantage of these drugs, since their cancers are not as dependent on estrogen for fuel. As a result, they have a lower survival...
...natal” is extremely misleading, since the aid is clearly intended for children that already exist, rather than parents. Furthermore, even if the cessation of these subsidies would eventually normalize Gaza’s population, which we do not believe to be true, this shift would not take effect for nearly decades after the aid’s removal. Relying on a policy that works so slowly, when citizens of Gaza are suffering on a daily basis, is unthinkable—not to mention the Palestinians who could starve as a result...
...what happened there? When the amendment went into effect in 1920 it became rapidly obvious that the American people were not going to abide by this law. In fact, alcohol consumption rates went up hugely. The folks who were behind prohibition saw this as kind of a moral cause in which the ends definitely justified the means - they were going to make people quit drinking. They realized the major supply came from these bootleggers who were stealing industrial alcohol (which is regular grade alcohol that you add chemicals to in order to make it undrinkable) and distilling...
...what accounted for the higher global temperature? According to a new paper in Nature, one possible factor is hurricanes. Scientists have long suspected that global warming could make hurricanes more intense somehow, but the new study suggests the effect works both ways: tropical cyclones could help drive up temperatures in response. "We're suggesting that hurricanes could have created a permanent El Niño condition," says Yale's Alexey Fedorov, lead author of the study. (See pictures of the effects of climate change...
Kramer said that decreasing fertility rates will eventually lead aging populations to “reject radical agendas.” He commended Israel’s economic sanctions on Gaza for having had the effect of breaking “Gaza’s runaway population growth” and undermining the Hamas regime. “Had Kramer’s statements been waged against any other group, they would have immediately been classified as extremist hate speech,” said Abdelnasser Rashid ’11-12, who serves as the president of the Harvard Islamic...