Word: recruiters
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...Researchers have wrung other kinds of information out of cancer cells, including the way they spur the formation of blood vessels, which nourish their growth. Avastin, approved in 2004, is the first drug to throw a wrench into the process by suppressing a tumor's ability to recruit vascular growth factors. As with many of the newer therapies, doctors have found that it works best as part of a cocktail of cancer drugs...
...years ago, there was only one drug, a chemotherapy agent, available to treat colon cancer, and it wasn't very effective. In the past decade, more chemotherapy drugs, which are easier on the body, and new classes of targeted therapies, which specifically block a tumor's ability to recruit growth factors and blood vessels, have improved the survival of patients...
...scholar but as a mentor.” “At this point in Japanese historical scholarship,” Khosrowpour added, “there’s nobody more active in the field.” Both Khosrowpour and Kurashige praised Adolphson for his ability to recruit students to the field and his innovative teaching techniques. Adolphson, Khosrowpour said, spearheaded the creation of a freshman seminar that takes students on a University-funded trip to Kyoto, Japan. Adolphson also teaches Historical Study A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation...
...militants are using sympathetic mosques in Talibanistan to recruit fighters to attack Western troops in Afghanistan, according to tribal elders in the region. With cash and religious fervor, they lure young men to join their battle and threaten local leaders so they will deliver the support of their tribes. Malik Haji Awar Khan, 55, head of the 2,000-strong Mutakhel Wazir tribe of North Waziristan, was approached a year ago to join the Taliban cause. When he refused, militants kidnapped his teenage sons. "They thought they could make me join them, but I am tired of fighting," says Khan...
...cloth, the first of their public "wrappings." And in a dozen commissions since, Kaldor has not only brought a who's who of contemporary art to Australia, from curator Harald Szeemann to video artist Nam June Paik, but amassed a seriously cool collection in the process. His newest KAP recruit is installation artist Urs Fischer, this year's Swiss representative at the Venice Biennale along with Ugo Rondinone, another KAP alumni. "He's got a passionate eye," says Engberg, director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. "He's very intuitive about what he likes, but his intuition...