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...Prostate cancer, which kills 29,000 men in the U.S. each year, is a tenacious disease in advanced stages. The treatment of cancer that has metastasized beyond the prostate involves drugs that block male hormones, the androgens testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, which feed tumor growth. Antiandrogen drugs, like bicalutamide, work by binding to the androgen receptors on prostate-cancer cells, chemically preventing the hormones from interacting with the tumor. Over time, however, cancer cells become resistant to the drugs as the number of androgen receptors on the cells increases, and in a cruel twist, the drugs somehow begin to stimulate...
JOHN MCCAIN'S pork-filled Twitter feed...
...persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India." Never in about 800 years since the first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...
...college-admissions process used to be relatively private, but that's all changing thanks to Facebook. After all, it's not hard to figure out who got in where when your classmate joins a group called "New York University Class of 2013" - and Facebook's news feed rubs it in your face...
...people upset about breastfeeding versus bottle-feeding? People are so upset. You read these baby books and they tell you, "You don't bottle-feed. It's something you just don't do anymore. Women across the centuries - across the millennia - have been feeding people with their boobs! You should be able to do it! You should sacrifice everything that you are to do this for your child, don't you understand?" That's seriously what they say. There is a cult of people out there who dedicate their lives to making sure the creed of breastfeeding is out there...