Word: englands
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When Mr. and Mrs. George Fry set sail from England and arrived in Weymouth, Mass., in the 1630s, they brought to America more than just luggage and four kids. They also brought the original gene mutation that leads to a hereditary form of colon cancer - and has resulted in thousands of people in the United States today who are at higher risk of developing the disease...
...history: he hails from the northern city of Palencia, not too far from hometown of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Basque soldier who founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits eventually became the shock troops of the Church as it fought the Reformation, terrorizing Protestant regimes from England to the Netherlands to Sweden...
...when his findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, cancer researcher Judah Folkman's peers dismissed his idea that cancer tumors were dependent on a growing network of blood vessels. The now widely accepted theory that blocking angiogenesis, or vessel growth, will inhibit tumors has led to a dedicated field of research and at least 10 drugs currently on the market. Folkman was 74 and died of an apparent heart attack...
...imagination ran forward to the late 21st century. Greece and Turkey are at war. The last King of England has abdicated. A virulent plague is scouring the earth of humanity, but our hero, a disaffected nobleman, is strangely immune to the disease. The end of the book finds him climbing the dome of a deserted St. Peter's in Rome?a dog his only companion, the last human being left alive on the planet. Shelley called the book The Last...
Matthews’ will conditioned the gift on Harvard holding and maintaining the property as “an experimental station in forestry for the benefit of all persons and institutions in New England that may be interested in such matters...