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...people, using Facebook, Twitter and other social-media channels to spread the word. Denny's is well aware that it needs to get younger. After all, the company is over half a century old, and famous for attracting the senior set for 10 a.m. powwows over coffee. Saturday Night Live recently skewered the chain's reputation with this doozy from "Weekend Update" comedian Seth Meyers: "The director of Iowa's Department of Aging said he will not use the abbreviation DOA, since it is also code for 'Dead on Arrival.' Some are suggesting that the Department of Aging go back...
...proposals requesting anywhere between $600 and $20,000. The actual amount awarded varied widely among students. Andrew R. Milewski ’12, a resident of Straus Hall, said he received $4,000 for his summer in Paris, while his roommate, Evan R. Czaplicki ’12, will live in the same city on only $1,500. “That covers plane tickets, essentially,” Czaplicki said. Both students said that their summer plans—for Milewski, work in a neurological research lab at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and for Czaplicki, language...
...over in either a practiced or studied form. According to Codrescu, we need to be rattled from our current “posthumanity”—a state of being ruled too much by reason and not enough by human vigor. We are posthumans because we live through technology, because we create virtual avatars, because “the city, the house, the car, the iPhone, the laptop, the iPod, the pillbox, the nonflesh” have become alienated vehicles for ourselves. The fear of posthumanity may seem a little exaggerated (haven’t humans always interacted...
...Rhizome, an organization dedicated to the creation, exhibition, and critique of largely web-based artistic enterprises. “When artists are working with the Internet and directly engaging with culture and society as it’s happening, those technologies are reshaping and challenging the world that we live in.”“This is art that’s at the forefront of culture,” she continues. “Not that painting isn’t, per se, but it’s difficult in general to illuminate and speak intelligently about...
...Edema is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in these patients.” The researchers showed that this was indeed the case in their rodent models—the main effect of the drug was to normalize the blood vessels and reduce swelling, allowing the animals to live longer with the tumor, said Kamoun. “This was the first preclinical study to show that normalization of vessels alone without chemotherapy and radiation can prolong life,” Jain said. Currently, clinical trials using cediranib to treat patients with both recurrent and newly-diagnosed glioblastoma...