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...exactly how aspirin works to ward off polyps. There is evidence to suggest that it slows down the enzyme known as cyclo-oxygenase 2, or COX-2, which seems to play a role in spurring cell growth that can lead to tumors. But for reasons no one can yet explain, higher doses of aspirin didn't translate into more protection. In one of the studies reported last week, more patients in the group taking full-strength, 325-mg aspirin pills developed colon cancer (10.7%) than in the group taking so-called baby, or 81-mg, aspirin (7.7%). The cancer rate...
...withdraw a UN Security Council resolution authorizing war after failing to win sufficient support to pass it, and President Bush's final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to leave his country within 48 hours, are simply the outcome of processes and decisions taken months, even years earlier. Historians seeking to explain the war will certainly debate the relative importance of a number of decisions and events over the past decade: the first Bush administration's reluctance to overthrow Saddam in 1991; Saddam's determination to hang onto those of his chemical and biological weapons he'd managed to keep...
...second goal in Harvard’s 3-2 victory in December. In February, the puck was underneath a Brown defender as it went into the net for the Crimson’s 4-3 win, and none of Harvard’s players could explain exactly how the goal was scored...
...rose to the scholarly challenge, confidently raising her hand. “Intellectually speaking, we know that America isn’t only blonde and blue-eyed, but the conception of the blonde is still an intriguing image and most guys and most girls probably couldn’t explain exactly why,” she said.The single blonde present, Bronwen E. Everill ’05 declined to use her personal experience to elaborate upon Dimengo’s compelling critical analysis. “Actually, I’m a fake blonde,” she admitted...
...realize that the Winthrop House mailroom is no place for an alligator.) My lack of digital doodads and hi-tech know-how is unusual in a college student of the twenty-first century, I think, but I bare this burden with some degree of pride. Allow me to explain...