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...greed or what? Kravis, Stephen Schwarzman and other princes of private equity (the financial deal of the moment) have been visiting Congress and wielding their checkbooks in an effort to save a tax-code provision that allows them to pay an income tax of 15% rather than the normal top rate of 35%. Have they lost their minds...
...heart. Higher rates of atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes can stem from early exposure to chemotherapy agents, specifically anthracyclines like Adriamycin. Although powerful against tumors, these drugs can weaken the heart muscle and stiffen the blood vessels, promoting hardening of the arteries at a much earlier age than normal...
Hutchinson's team, led by Dr. Jim Olson, spent three years developing the compound and has tested it in a variety of human tumors grown in mice. "The target we are hitting is something that most cancer cells use to eat away normal tissue to make space for the cancer to grow," he says. So far the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers: gliomas and medulloblastomas in the brain, sarcomas in muscles, and prostate and colon cancers. They expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...
...family firm has tripled revenues in the past five years, the AKP has been "great for business." Down the road, Mehmet Goktas, 41, agrees. Sales at the supermarket he owns have more than doubled in the same period. "We've moved from an inflation-based economy to a normal one," he says. Both Cam and Goktas consider themselves "very religious" and both come from conservative families who were drawn to the AKP for its "Islamic values," but it's the party's economic record that has sustained their support...
...remember that you won't always feel like this, that things are going to change. When you first get the news, you cannot imagine that you are ever going to feel any different. You can't imagine that this terrible thing is somehow going to get sorted into the normal categories of life. But it does, because that is part of our resilience, part of our ability to incorporate unimaginable difficulties. Human beings are just amazing that...