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...much smaller than a BB," says Dr. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School. This tiny mass -- known as a carcinoma in situ, literally cancer in place -- is malignant, but not yet dangerous. Why? Because the cells at the center of the tumor are too far from the bloodstream to obtain essential nutrients, they are less vigorous. Like a society with zero population growth, a carcinoma in situ adds about as many new cells as it loses old ones...
...sales from their own faltering factories, it is easier than ever to use such channels. Even so, my companion was impressed at the influence wielded by powerful members of the military-industrial establishment eyeing a $100 million deal: overnight the old comrade's network had worked out methods to obtain supplies and components from several different factories to restart production and persuaded the government to enlist the aid of another country to give cover to the sale...
Before I finish this letter, I need to ask a small favor, Martin. I wanted to know who has won the last 23 World Series championships since 1971. You see, the government shut down our last newspaper back then, and it's very difficult to obtain a copy of any newspapers unless one is willing to make the trek to a foreign embassy. Consequently, we're sometimes not completely up to date in our knowledge of current events...
...sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...
...shortage of minority Ph.D.'s coupled with the tremendous demand. has led to cut-throat bidding wars. Universities often obtain minority professors after great efforts, only to have them snatched away by rivals offering a better deal...