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...health-insurance revolution has reached adolescence. After more than a decade, managed-care plans--with their incentives for doctors to hold down treatment costs--cover about half the population. Fee-for-service plans--with their equally problematic incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to shrink. The result has been a welcome reduction in the runaway growth of medical costs and, for many people, simpler, better coverage of their real needs. But as in any adolescence, there are signs of rebellion. An ominous backlash has begun...
Extracurricular activities have mushroomed nearly out of control in the last decade or so, as the blurbs allotted to each in The Unofficial Guide annually shrink. The result is that interests have so diversified that the student body is becoming somewhat balkanized, with students forming almost every type of interest group under the sun, and with each tub on its own bottom...
Folkman's research centers around using proteins to block the growth of the blood vessels which feed cancerous tumors. Injections of two such proteins--angiostatin and endostatin--into mice with cancerous tumors eventually hampered the growth of the tumors. The proteins caused the tumors to shrink, and eventually, to stop growing back...
...most recent work has shown that successive injections of the inhibitors in mice cause the tumors to shrink at the same rate, but they take longer to grow back each time. After several successive rounds, the tumors do not grow back...
Since then, Folkman's group has demonstrated that these natural inhibitors can be injected into tumors, causing them to shrink. This creates the possibility of using the inhibitors as a first-line therapy against cancer. These results are unpublished...