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...researchers conducted Phase I trials at Buck and at the Cancer Research Network in Plantation, Fla. Their 21 participants had stage IV metastatic breast cancer, which had continued to progress despite an average of four rounds of standard treatment, including chemo and hormone therapy. The patients took 12 g a day of Ban Zhi Lian, a dose that's three times more concentrated than the amount found in a cup of brewed tea. After about a year, 25% of the patients saw stabilization in their disease for 90 days, and 19% for 180 days. The experimenters say BZL101 works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Ancient Herbs Treat Cancer? | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...main strategy was to get out and be the team to beat,” Holmquest said. “Every day, we’re making progress towards where we want to be at the end of the year...

Author: By Lucas A. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dominates Albany Invitational | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

...core along these lines neither adopts the great books approach that Mahtani derides nor the general distribution approach that he embraces but rather provides a common-sense synthesis of the two. It presupposes only that knowledge is cumulative and that progress in education depends on mastering the basics...

Author: By Peter Berkowitz | Title: Mahtani’s Approach To Core Curricula Falls Short | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...this sooner or later.” After seeing the first round of shoots, he says he was “highly impressed by the digital end,” but that the real suspense lies in seeing how the two sections will progress and improve over the semester. Killip also says the students have a unique opportunity in this class—one they can’t get by doing digital photography on their own. “You can’t do this at home,” he remarks, as he explains that the high...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Photo Class Develops In Digital | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...also learned from Katrina, which was preceded a year before by a comprehensive simulation dubbed Hurricane Pam, drills don't always translate into progress. If they're going to work, they have to be realistic - and therein lies the problem with TOPOFF. Guess who won't be invited to it? You and me, or many other average folks, for that matter. Sorry, the public and the media have never been allowed to fully participate in the nation's most elaborate counterterrorism drills. Which is sort of like holding a band practice without the drums, the bass or the sound system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Terror Drills | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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