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That's the bad news. The good news is that the situation is on the mend. Basic research into the molecular chemistry of cancer is well funded and advancing steadily, delivering better diagnoses and smarter drugs. Meanwhile, a series of dramatic improvements in the tools of treatment are moving into clinical trials, promising patients kinder, gentler ways to treat their cancers. Among the highlights...
...else" meant, first, an official warning from the E.U. Commission: "Achtung, you are getting too close to the target. Mend your ways - now!" Second, it meant heavy financial penalties if the limit was breached. Thus, Teutonic discipline would reign from Cork to Calabria, Portugal to the Polish border. Back then, nobody imagined that Germany would ever act as fox in charge of the chicken coop. But this is precisely what is happening...
Summers’ statements on the value of patriotism were unambiguous, and when pushed for further comment, he reiterates that he felt there was a need to mend a gap between “Eastern coastal elites” and the rest of the country...
University President Lawrence H. Summers met with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 yesterday in an efforts to mend a rift that threatened to send the prominent member of the Afro-American Studies department packing for Princeton...
...corporate planning rooms, however, hopes are likely to stay on the mend. There is little chance that CEOs planning deals will recoil. Companies seeking to divest a noncore asset or buy one that fits a strategic need can't wait forever. With stock prices no longer falling and the worst earnings news evidently behind us, bankers say, buyers and sellers of companies are better able to value assets and are eager to explore options. For example, analysts who cover J.P. Morgan Chase say the bank, stung by its exposure to investment banking, is looking for an acquisition in the consumer...