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...Reagan Administration stopped forcing quotas on Japan in 1985. Even though the Japanese unilaterally imposed their own ceiling on the number of cars exported to the U.S. that year, the quota was a full 24% higher than the one for the year before. In 1985 Detroit's collective profits shrank a bit to $8.1 billion, and this year are expected to decline again, to $7.1 billion...
...upheaval. While the middle class has never officially been defined, the group could reasonably be described as those families with incomes between the Census Bureau brackets of $15,000 and $49,999. According to the census, the proportion of U.S. families in that category, after adjustment for inflation, shrank from 65.1% in 1970 to 58.2% in 1985 (see chart). The trend is far from being a completely odious phenomenon, though. The statistics show that more families departing the middle class have moved up than down. Families with incomes of $50,000 or more -- considered the gateway to the upper class...
...interleukins, for example. Last year, in one of immunotherapy's most promising clinical trials to date, Rosenberg's team used the hormone-like substance interleukin-2 to turn certain white blood cells into cancer destroyers called lymphokine- activated killers. Reinjected into the bloodstream with more IL-2, LAK cells shrank or eliminated tumors in several patients. As news of the experiment spread, desperate cancer victims around the country besieged the NCI for LAK treatment. Able to take only a handful of patients, the institute is still turning away hundreds each week. Nearly overlooked in the news reports was Rosenberg...
...visible on the present-day cliffs. "When it rained," says Olsen, "chunks of rock and mud raced down the mountainsides and buried large swaths of ground." Many of the now fossilized animals escaped the slides, only to be trapped in cracks that opened as the mud flow dried and shrank. Olsen believes the animals entered the fissures in search of water or were dragged there by carnivores occupying the cavelike spaces as dens...
...results were impressive for several types of cancer. In eleven of the 25 patients, tumors shrank by 50% or more. Among the patients showing this response were three out of three with kidney cancer and four out of seven with melanoma, a particularly dangerous form of skin cancer that often spreads to the internal organs. In one melanoma patient who previously had widespread tumors, all signs of malignancy disappeared. There was, however, no response at all in 14 of the patients, and the outlook, even for those who have improved, remains uncertain; none has been observed for more than...