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...Thomas' study was not designed to tease out why these scalp and neck lesions are particularly dangerous, but she notes that those areas are crisscrossed with extensive lymph and blood vessels - such networks can make it easier for cancer cells to both grow and spread. Dr. Vijay Trisal, a cancer specialist at City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, also notes that these areas receive the most sun exposure. "The maximum sun exposure areas are to the scalp, face and neck," he says, "so it makes sense biologically that cancers here would be different from those in areas...
...district,” said Risa Lavelle, a parent of three, who said she is looking for a more “creative approach” that would utilize more one-on-one student learning and non-traditional teaching methods. “Teachers are willing to learn, change, grow, but I just feel they’re getting overrun and overworked by the central administration,” she added, calling for more teacher input and funding. But Lawrence J. Adkins, who ran for the Cambridge City Council in 2005, said that teacher input was hard to come...
...Lewis, a professor of biology at Northeastern, said that the underlying hypothesis of this paper suggests that the properties of soil bacteria that allow them to grow on antibiotics also allow them to resist antibiotics in more complex environments, like in an organism...
...super-resistant soil bacteria are exchanging genetic information with human pathogens, antibiotics might become counterproductive as a treatment because these bacteria might simply consume the antibiotics and use them to grow...
When it comes down to it, universities are supposed to be a safe haven were students can, for at least four years of their lives, study and grow without worrying about the peril of the outside world. Guns on campus, however, bring that very danger into the midst of a student’s living environment. In the aftermath of great terror like the Virginia Tech massacre, not only is heightened fear expected, but so too is the potential for hatred and vigilante retribution. Rather than succumb to such emotions, we can instead respect the memory of the dead...