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...This is a new molecular tool that will allow clinicians to select those patients who do not require chemotherapy at all," says Dr. David Kerr, a University of Oxford professor of cancer medicine, who led the study and will present its results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) in Orlando at the end of May. "It will empower some patients to be cured with surgery alone...
...This mindset of regarding Supreme Court nominations as a means of rewarding a constituency for its political support is highly pernicious and poisons the nomination process. Furthermore, the pursuit of racial and sexual balance has no place in a process that should aspire to select justices based on the relevant criteria of intellect and principles, not the irrelevant criteria of complexion and anatomy...
...Restoring it is now vital. Part of that responsibility lies with the lenders themselves. "Banks need to know their business," said John McFall, chairman of Britain's Treasury Select Committee, during a recent debate on trust and financial markets organized by the Fabian Society, a left-leaning London think tank. In future, bosses ought to know their CDOs from the CDSs, McFall said, and not leave such understanding to the banks' "35-year-old Ph.D.s." Reining in sky-high bonuses, boosting capital reserves and sharpening risk management won't do any harm to public trust, either...
...humbled by the Harvard community. “For me the biggest element is to know that I have such amazing support,” she says of winning the OFA’s award. “To know the most involved people in the arts would select me from all the other extremely dedicated people is really wonderful to know. I feel like I have really contributed something.” According to Fuller, she has been one of the most active and involved people in dance productions at Harvard. “She brings so much energy...
...Over the past few weeks, Toys "R" Us has been quietly testing the "R" Market in select stores across the country. Sales "are running ahead of where we expected," says Storch. However, customers at the Toys "R" Us in Phillipsburg, a town that sits on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border, were for the most part unimpressed. Over the course of two hours on a Friday afternoon, only a handful of customers even wandered over to the "R" Market, which had been open for about two weeks. Granted, the store wasn't exactly packed in the toy aisles either...