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...there are too many different types of malignancies to hope for a universal treatment. Rather, it's that doctors are beginning to piece together new strategies for keeping cancer from recurring and, in some cases, preventing it from taking root in the first place. As ASCO president Dr. Larry Norton puts it, "Cancer is not a bolt of lightning. It's more like a thunderstorm. We have plenty of time to close the windows if we know what...
...level is pop. You have to get your record on the radio for people to pay attention." ? Bono, U2 frontman, on his tour of Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill "I've used the term breakthrough three times in my career. This is one of them." ? Larry Norton, doctor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center, on Novartis' Gleevec "What are they going to attack next, the mute button?" ? Ken Potashner, CEO of SONICblue, on efforts to stop digital video recorders from skipping commercials
...Author Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners, was feted at an elegant party at Eleven Madison Park by Norton, her satisfied publisher. Her next book, "Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)," will be published in November. We spoke for a while with The Divine Miss M, and found her delightful and brainy. America, she says, has the "manners of egalitarianism. We are the leaders in manners that show respect to everyone. The British have gotten good at pageantry. The pomp of royalty is fun to watch, but it doesn't go over in America...
...them--not just standouts--to their fullest potential. Rather than dampening the rush toward free agency, many observers believe the recent ax wielding will only encourage it. "It's not that everybody is dying to be a free agent," says Bruce Tulgan, author of Winning the Talent Wars (W.W. Norton & Co.). "It's that people are realizing they have no choice." And companies will soon have no choice but to accept that their best workers are holding most of the cards...
...note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that the BSO’s concert was a lovingly performed farewell to Ozawa...