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...infection with these viruses does not always lead to malignant growth. In fact, that happens infrequently. Explains M.I.T. Biologist Nancy Hopkins: "Cancer arises from a number of insults to the DNA. Viruses are one insult. They start the process rolling." Years usually elapse between infection and the development of a related cancer. When liver cancer strikes a hepatitis carrier, for example, it generally does so 30 to 50 years after the victim was first infected. These long delays, Zur Hausen observes, "suggest the need for other events besides infection to occur in order to progress to cancer...
Every time you "win" at quarters, some other guy gets to drink your beer, burp in your sober little face and insult...
While the four-day, University-wide celebration earlier this month may have been among the best of times for thousands of Harvard alumni, the undergraduate festivities promise to be an embarrassment and an insult to every student. What should be a celebration of the College at its best pays homage to Harvard's worst traditions of elitism and exclusivity...
...President for even thinking about a summit or an arms-control deal while Daniloff awaits trial on a charge that could theoretically be punished by death. Columnist George Will sneered that the Administration had collapsed "like a punctured balloon," and the Washington Times editorially flung the conservatives' supreme insult: "Jimmy Carter, by comparison, was tough and crafty...
...Australians do not owe us their loyalty, nor will they continue to extend their friendship if we continue to abuse it. If there is a strong link between our countries, it is more because of our hearts than because of our guns or money. And when we add insult to injury by ignoring the Australians' protests at the same time as we damage their economy, we needlessly imperil a valuable friendship...