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Even though much more research has to be done, the Scripps findings look promising. As doctors and their patients know all too well, malignant tumors have a nasty habit of outwitting whatever treatments are aimed at them. A one- two punch that deprives the tumor of its blood supply while at the same time attacking it with more traditional weapons could prove to be a powerful strategy in the fight against cancer...
...visits to Rome's 320 parishes and deep philosophical debates. Yet he remains intensely interested in anything involving the church in Poland. John Paul reads the Cracow Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny as soon as it arrives at the Vatican. Indeed, bishops around the world have caught on to this habit and compete fiercely to have their latest works published in what editor Father Andrzej Bardecki calls "our little weekly...
Even though Treasurer Robert Citron was the only elected Democrat in the government of affluent and archconservative Orange County, California, he seemed almost to own his job. People liked his folksy habit of sending out tax bills with slogans that rhymed ("Taxes paid on time never draw fines"). And they really liked the remarkably high returns that Citron earned on the billions of dollars of county funds that he managed -- income that paid for such things as gang-busting police drives in a time of tight budgets. It was thus not surprising that Citron easily won a seventh term this...
...pulled through, somehow. When Kevin LaPierre sank a huge three-pointer (he had the habit of making big three-pointers when it really mattered) to tie the game, everyone knew it could still be ours...
...made a habit of climbing from office to office in his trek up the ladder to political nirvana, running virtually every year for the past 15. His favorite tactics are somewhat unorthodox: he joked during the primary about wanting to mud wrestle with his Republican opponent, State Rep. Ellen Harley...