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Identified by neurobiologist Harald Sontheimer, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chlorotoxin targets glioma cells and blocks their fluid-balancing chloride channels, preventing them from shrinking and then migrating elsewhere in the brain. Sontheimer's group is about to submit a clinical-trial protocol to the FDA. If approved, as many as 30 glioma patients could begin receiving chlorotoxin tagged with radioactive iodine as early as July. If the strategy works, Sontheimer says, "chlorotoxin could become a platform for delivering all sorts of drugs...
...fear of the court into future elections supervisors - "My job is not to send a message... my job is to rule in the case that's before me" - it seemed a statement that could cut both ways. Then there was the lunchtime injection of suspense: Was the situation fluid? Could one or both of these cases turn George W. Bush into what he hasn't been for 31 days now - the challenger...
...Crimson iced the game with 34 seconds left in the middle frame with a very fluid power-play goal. Freshman winger Tim Petit, who was at the left point, hit Steve Moore on the doorstep, and Moore one-timed it. Grant managed to stop Steve Moore, but brother Dominic slammed home the rebound...
...text. Its Hyperbolic Reader (based on the hyperbolic tree, a Xerox PARC invention) tells a children's story in Perspective Wall style. Cartoons and speech bubbles grow large as you move a joystick over them, then shrink as you turn to another part of the story's tree. In Fluid Fiction (also created with PARC software), another children's story is told in just 24 sentences. But touch the end of any sentence, and the text parts, revealing a new set of sentence endings. Touch one, and you're down to the story's third layer. The device literally teaches...
...Communist? Was Eugene Debs a member of the Communist Party?" says Ann Ginger. "These things are fluid. They're not a simple thing, like a card-carrying member of the KKK. People were in and around the Socialist party, the Communist party...