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Researchers aren't sure why chemotherapy boosts the effectiveness of radiation, though they have an idea. Radiation damages the DNA found in cancer cells. But all cells, including cancer cells, contain enzymes that repair broken DNA. Perhaps the drugs used in chemotherapy block the cellular repairmen from doing their job. The damaged DNA never gets fixed, and the cancer cells...
...opens onto a rickedystaircase. The staircase climbs past a signindicating the availability of the daily racingform, past the body-shop's accounting office andfinally into the pool room at the top of thebuilding. Seven thinly-felted tables are crammedinto this rectangular box, with windows on theleft side overlooking the repairmen below. Sully's1996 "Best-of Boston" award, which seems to havebeen photocopied and posted so that a copy isvisible from every location in the building, isfor "Best Neighborhood Bargain Billiards," andit's well-deserved--it's hard to imagine any placemore bargain or more neighborhood than this. For 6dollars total...
...technology may be fueling gains in productivity, but that means many people are working harder than before, especially since their laptops and cell phones stretch the office all the way home. Car repairmen are carrying beepers; husbands and wives rise in the morning and log on to read their E-mail before they make the coffee; the TV in the neighborhood sports bar is tuned to CNBC, because the trading never stops. Americans are working 160 hours more each year than they did 20 years ago, moonlighting is on the rise and nearly half the respondents in one survey said...
...content is king. But anyone who visited the Internet World trade show in New York City last week could see that's a lie. Downstairs, in the peasant quarters of the Javits Convention Center, lots of struggling Web publishers huddled in drab booths and unadorned stalls, lonely as Maytag repairmen. Who among them could afford to rent a place on the ground floor...
...repairmen ever had so much riding on a service call as the two cosmonauts dispatched last week to fix Russia's crippled Mir space station. Commander Anatoli Solovyev, 49, and engineer Pavel Vinogradov, 43, must not only restore the station as a working orbital laboratory but also reassure their U.S. partners that Mir is safe enough to let Americans continue visiting...