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...rid of some of these people right now: Sixteen is way too much; just ask any good dramatist. Nobody can tell them apart. This isn't a Robert Altman joint (is it?), and oh, by the way, do you not remember that most of Robert Altman's crowded-cast films, um, sucked? (Except for "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" that is, but even then they worked because the big group was broken down into four or five small groups). Whom do we remember from "Survivor 1," anyway? Just the last few: Richard, Sue, Sean, Rudy, Kelly (one was named Kelly, right...
...thriller in Manila had been, Arroyo said Thursday, "I think the bottom line is how the markets accepted it." Indeed, stock prices have climbed 20 percent since Estrada's ouster. But where the business, military, political and clerical elite may have reached consensus on the need to get rid of Estrada, they may be more divided on how to succeed him. The first sign of trouble came earlier this week when Arroyo's defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges himself. She may be a committed economic...
...resistance really goes into fast-forward when patients with serious diseases like malaria and TB do not follow doctor's orders, often because they are poor and cannot afford a full course of medication. Instead, they take just enough medication to alleviate their symptoms but not enough to rid their system of the original infection. This has the effect of eliminating the drug-sensitive microbes from the lineup and encouraging the drug-resistant ones to grow...
...long it takes them to get back to the one dry platform researchers have positioned out of sight in a watery maze. There are now strong hints that retarding the development of plaques helps preserve intellectual performance, at least in rodents. And that raises an intriguing question: Might getting rid of plaques once they have developed do more than slow a patient's decline...
Such therapies will not, on their own, be able to rid the body of large tumors. So it is likely that oncologists will put together cocktails of treatments, each using a different strategy to outfox the cancer. In the future, traditional chemotherapy will be combined with other cell-killing treatments like the COX-2 inhibitors, drugs that are chemically related to pain-killers like ibuprofen and that appear to force cancer cells to self-destruct. Chemotherapy will also be used with treatments that aim simply to stop tumors from growing, such as the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds...