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...Breast cancer is the model for treating cancer as a chronic disease, largely because it's the focus of so much research and drug development. "We have a ton of drugs that work for breast cancer - eight or nine - more than for any other cancer," says Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris Breast Center at the University of Southern California. The approach for someone with metastatic disease like Elizabeth Edwards, says Russell, is to use a drug until it stops working - as it almost inevitably will - and then switch to something else, possibly buying years of relatively good...
...Once Piero had returned from his travels to Arezzo, the wealthy Bacci family commissioned what is widely considered his masterpiece in the city's Basilica of San Francesco. The Legend of the True Cross, a complex yet perfectly proportioned fresco cycle of 12 panels, uses contemporary models and references to tell the ancient legend of how the Emperor Constantine's mother discovered Christ's cross during a pilgimage to the Holy Land. The modest "skyline" of 15th century Arezzo, for example, served as his model for biblical Jerusalem...
...record, a minimum market cap and shareholder approval for big acquisitions or disposals; NASDAQ and NYSE have similar hurdles. But AIM's quality control is outsourced to 85 so-called Nominated Advisers, or Nomads. Generally accounting firms or financial management companies, Nomads scrutinize a firm's executive staff, business model and performance before deciding whether it can list. To a degree, NYSE's Thain is right: AIM has very few prescriptive requirements for listing - the Nomad's own judgment...
Well, I think that one of the side effects of my job, without me even trying, is that I'm a role model. It's a great feeling when people come up to me and talk about my story and how it inspired them to work harder or to believe in themselves and not give up. I never got into this business for that, but it's nice to hear...
...Orleans," says Beverly Wright, director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University. (Her house took on 8 ft. of water after Katrina.) "If we're vigilant, we can make New Orleans the safest coastal city in the world and then use it as a model for how the rest of the country can get ready for global warming...