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...That new perspective provided fertile ground for the growth of new classes of cancer therapies. While older drugs were like heavy artillery - obliterating cancer cells but causing lots of collateral damage - newer drugs are more like smart bombs. Some of them target communication signals within malignant cells, some cut off supply lines by interfering with the growth of blood vessels around a tumor, and others block the chemical agents that enable tumors to expand into new territory. These more targeted therapies tend to focus on frantically proliferating cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact...
...absent or on the sidelines. While there are a couple of nasty whackings, the most physically and emotionally brutal scene is sparked by a drunken game of Monopoly. (Tony, unsurprisingly, palms $500 from the bank and believes in the Free Parking--jackpot rule.) But Tony's personal crises--getting older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) proved unsuited to lead; protégé Christopher (Michael Imperioli) is off making his low-budget Mafia-slasher movie, with a pseudo-Tony...
...says were trumped up and which were later dismissed by judges - was widely seen as a power struggle between two ambitious politicians. But it also hinted at a generation shift in Senegalese society, repeated throughout much of Africa, where an increasingly restive youth are demanding representation and rights that older, less politicized generations never expected. Jacques Habib Sy, a Dakar-based political analyst, says, "The level of political consciousness among young people is growing. You have a new citizenry who know it's important to go to the poll and express themselves with their ballot cards...
...When the dust cleared, the overall nightly news audience was around 25 million and gradually falling, much as before. And Gibson, the one anchor to have a bit of success, was the anti-Couric: avuncular, male, older (he replaced Elizabeth Vargas, two decades his junior) and unreliant on innovations like Op-Ed segments. Hiring him implied an entirely different view of TV news and its future. CBS was programming for the viewers network news wanted. ABC was programming to keep the viewers network news already had, for as long as the Grim Reaper would permit...
...said Everett I. Mendelsohn, a professor of history of science. “He didn’t try and stretch himself out.â€Bok attributes his modest agenda to both his status as an interim president and the fact that he is 15 years older than he was when he left Mass. Hall.Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, a fellow septuagenarian, said that Bok actually sets an example for his younger peers.“Just by his example, our president makes us all feel younger and more sprightly,†said Knowles...