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...price too: it leaves less surplus to pay down the nation's debt, a condition that puts upward pressure on yields. Inflation--the scourge of fixed incomes--has doubled from its low 1.6% annual rate 18 months ago, lending heft to bond-pit suspicions that a recovery has taken root...
...rate of false positives, Sidransky zeroed in on DNA shed directly from tumors. Many solid tumors, it turns out, result from mutations in stretches of DNA that are repeated several times. Finding these abnormal DNA snippets in urine or saliva could mean a cancer is just beginning to take root. In a small pilot study of bladder-cancer patients, one screen that Sidransky developed picked up more than 90% of tumors--a hit rate that could revolutionize the early detection and treatment of bladder cancer...
...hard to be hostile to creatures so charmingly intent, so assiduous, and so eagerly scrambling up the food chain. I guess they would not be cute if they carried bubonic plague. But these being glove-gray country mice that have skittered in from a Tom and Jerry cartoon, I root for their innocence and ingenuity. I am even mouse-proud. My mice are smarter than your mice! After the stunt with the Skippy peanut butter jar, I felt as they had gotten 800s on their SATs. These guys are good...
George has been at times a difficult man to root for. Had it not been for Yoko, the Beatles’ breakup might well have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...
GORAN IVANISEVIC Wild card Balkanizes Wimbledon. Croatia can now root for someone other than war-crime indictees...