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...Chemotherapy before cancer surgery can lengthen survival time sixfold over surgery alone, says a new report...
Harvard could not "move through" its opponent this time. Although it did not let Brown lengthen the lead, the Crimson could not make up any distance either...
...staff and still seeing as many as 30 people a day. He relies on not one top deputy but a team of four or five aides, and he turns for advice on almost any subject to practically anyone within shouting range. The centralized approach tends to reduce accountability, lengthen response time and leave Clinton trying to do too many things at once. Two weeks ago, early one morning, McLarty had to insist that the President stop signing pictures during a meeting and move away from his desk into another chair to have what he called "a nice, crisp, 10- minute...
PEOPLE INFECTED WITH HIV, THE AIDS VIRUS, MAY not show overt symptoms for years. Even so, they are often given AZT, a drug believed to lengthen the lives of those with full-blown AIDS. Several studies have shown that AZT can delay the onset of symptoms, though it doesn't prevent or cure the disease...
...extended family does not mean that huge clans will gather under one roof. "They'll want intimacy at a distance," says Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University. The extended family will be more of a network of crisscrossing loyalties and obligations. As life-spans lengthen and marriages multiply, middle-aged couples could find themselves crushed by the responsibilities of caring all at once for aging parents, frail grandparents, children still completing their education and perhaps even a stepgrandchild or two. In short, the "sandwich generation," already feeling so much pressure in the 1990s, could give...