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...think sometimes you get a little luckier at times,” Chu said. “I don’t think I’m doing anything different as far as playing the puck to the net. Maybe I’m shooting a little bit more. Now my mentality is to get it to the net and see what happens...
...year away from marketing protein-based drugs to treat arthritis and multiple sclerosis. For the luckier Pioneers like Grier and Dufresne, the distance between the initial "Eureka!" moment and a marketable business can be breathtakingly brief. It's true that they were not the first to develop an optical trap. This has been a hot area of scientific inquiry at least since 1986, when Bell Labs invented one. (Grier had done a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Labs.) Back then, Bell Labs scientists invented a single-beam "optical tweezers" that trapped just one substance. That was a monumental breakthrough, but scientists...
...Given those statistics, Supple - whose chemotherapy winds up in March - is lucky to be alive. Given his age, he's even luckier. While there have been huge strides in treating young children - about 80% of under-15s diagnosed with cancer in Australia and New Zealand will beat the disease, more than double the rate in the 1970s - adolescents and young adults aren't doing nearly as well: depending on the type of cancer, their cure rates are lagging as much as 30 percentage points behind. The figures for all - the most common childhood cancer - illustrate the point. Some...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, meanwhile, was luckier...
...newly inducted pastor Rhys Winter, "but Pastor Peter is more a teacher than a preacher." In the process, Marumba says he wants to give birth to a new kind of Christian worker - "a person that can float above all the issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some - it's dry. The first indigenous community in W.A. to enact plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble, it's a relatively peaceful and orderly town, with simple modern architecture and vegetable gardens - except when chairman Bruce Smith turns on his outdoor electronic keyboard...