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...Gleevec reversed the odds for patients suffering from two rare cancers - chronic myelogenous leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumors - for which there had been no effective treatments. In a matter of months, patients who were out of options had their lives back, and while their cancer was not cured, it was under control, at least for a while. Other new drugs, including Tarceva and Iressa, also halt tumor growth by messing with tyrosine kinase. The key to developing such drugs, says Glaspy, is "torturing cancer cells, and getting them to confess to us which pathways they are dependent...
...Another possibility is that she believes Democratic members of Congress are on a mere witch hunt and will cook up charges against her, no matter what she says under oath. Her lawyer's letter alludes to this by mentioning that some members have already decided they were lied to by Bush Administration officials, and plan to "use the hearings to promote [their] political party." As a reason to plead the Fifth, though, "That's a new one," says Kerr. "I don't think I've ever come across that one before...
...testimony is sufficiently valuable, they could offer her immunity from prosecution, leaving her without an excuse for refusing to testify. Or they could hold her in contempt of Congress. According to Kerr, federal law provides that a subpoenaed witness who refuses to testify or "to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House ... or any committee of either House of Congress" shall be guilty of a misdemeanor "punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months...
...didn't do a very good job of converting its former slaves to full-fledged citizens. Slavery gave way to Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, redlining and educational and job discrimination. Although illegal now, these tools perpetuated a racial hierarchy that affects every American today, no matter how subtly. Just compare any rates of achievement, poverty, imprisonment by race; blacks are nowhere closing to catching...
...been getting to the goal no matter what, so I just went as hard as I could and I was ready for a hit,” Stenmark said. “I just put it on the cage and it went...