Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would ever accuse the former Soviet republics of going overboard on environmental protection. But even by their low standards, the news that began trickling out of Russia last week was appalling. A ruptured pipeline in the northwestern Komi republic has dumped a huge amount of oil onto the Arctic landscape, contaminating wetlands and fouling waterways. An eyewitness reported that on one river the crude has formed a noxious slick measuring six to seven miles long, 14 yards wide and a yard deep. The spill's total volume, say U.S. Department of Energy officials, could be as much as 2 million...
...significance of Folkman's finding lies in the protein's ability to inhibit angiogenesis (blood vessel growth), said Noel Bouck, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University Medical School. "In order to grow, tumors must produce new blood vessels," she said...
...Tumors have the ability to stop the growth of metastases," she said. "I talked to surgeons at Northwestern and they said after they removed tumors, metastases grew...
...great," said Hughes, an Ohio high school star who was recruited by Boston College, Stanford, Northwestern and Duke...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School surged from fourth in 1992 to number one, unseating three-time champion Kellogg School at Northwestern University with what Business Week called the "most dramatic curriculum changes at any elite school...