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...Science has long searched for a means of controlling tumors, which can grow from pinhead to marble size in little more than a week. Dr. M. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School has found a clue as to how this may be accomplished. The growth of solid cancers appears to require the presence of a recently identified protein substance called tumor angiogenesis factor (T.A.F.). Though Folkman has been working with a variety of solid tumors, he told a neurosurgeons' meeting last week that his chief target has been certain malignancies of the brain, where the need for blood supply...
Folkman told members of the seminar in Clearwater, Fla, that without the TAF, the tumor becomes trapped in its waste products and is not supplied with the nutrients necessary for growth beyond the size of a pinhead...
...light switch the same act as my act of alerting the prowler, if in fact by flipping on the switch and illuminating the room, I do alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical ones in helping to solve the age-old puzzler of free will v. determinism. Free will is back in philosophical style, and Wiggins concedes that the traditional way of stating that problem "wasn't after...
...Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer...
...reared in Oxford, where her father is a public-health pathologist. For an actress, she has a fantastic lack of ego. "I'm a pinhead who's all eyes and teeth," she says. "I'm dull, uninteresting, shy, ordinary. No scalding sex life. No scandal. No punch-ups.* Even my best friends tell me I've got a nice bashed-in face...