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...Folkman's insight was to look for substances that prevent tumors from building those pipelines. This approach worked beautifully in mice. Now more than 50 angiogenesis inhibitors are being studied in humans with a wide range of cancers; a dozen are in the final stages of testing. Thus far, only a tiny number of human patients treated with these compounds have seen their tumors shrink or disappear. Clinicians are nonetheless encouraged; while angiogenesis inhibitors don't make cancer go away, they do appear to slow tumor growth. And that means they may work best in conjunction with some...
...range of discursive memory stretched father and deeper than I had ever seen; in the absence of totalizing newness, the strata of the city's building and becoming was testament to a continuity of production on a scale dwarfing the (European) self-construction of the American heartland. My first insight into the possibility of history was appropriately one of the oldest and commonest thoughts in history, while seeming to me both vast...
...improve the VES program. Recent visiting faculty members include sculptor Joel Shapiro, performance artist/dancer/filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and photographer Boris Mikhailov; renowned director Hal Hartley and photographer Nan Goldin, along with many others, will come to the program next year. Working with these artists has provided us as students tremendous insight into the practice of the visual arts, opportunities to discuss our work at a professional level of criticism and connections with many artists with whom we will stay in touch after the end of the semester. The notion that we should suffer from this continuing link to a vibrant...
...real theatre rat," he said. "That's where I found my most meaningful relationships and insight on the world...
...There are other kids lost in their own worlds. Trickey, according to a report of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs, "does not show any remorse for his crime and has little insight into his problems." Father John Kiernan, who used to visit Solomon regularly, says he seemed unaware of the consequences of his rampage. But in 1999, Solomon carved an X across his chest, apparently with a fingernail, and last January he attempted suicide by swallowing 22 pills of the antidepressant Elavil that he had bought from another inmate...