Word: shrunk
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...years ago, Mohammad Omidian, 58, a general contractor from Orinda, Calif., had failed to respond to chemotherapy treatments for multiple myeloma that was eating away at his bones. He had shrunk 3 in. and was so weak, he says, "I could not sneeze without holding on to something." His doctors put him on Dendreon’s experimental treatment Mylovenge, which required extracting dendritic cells from Omidian’s blood, mixing them with molecules from myeloma cells, and then returning them to him so they could deliver a swift kick to his immune system. Within two weeks, Omidian felt strong enough...
Meanwhile, the campaign replays in screaming miniature, the long race for the White House shrunk to fit in a shoebox. The sharpest, most dangerous legal brains on earth are folded up and stuffed into a three-block stretch of sleepy Tallahassee, borrowing strangers' desks, living on doughnuts, men and women who have negotiated treaties and broken monopolies and saved the dollar and brokered peace in the Middle East. "We win every day. We lose every day," said a top Gore soldier. "This place is totally rigged against us, and yet we are trying to do something no one has ever...
Though the final building designed by James Hoban had dramatically shrunk from L'Enfant's original dream house, it was still the biggest in America when Adams moved in on Nov. 1, 1800. His arrival at about noon from Philadelphia caused little stir when he came down Pennsylvania Avenue in a nondescript carriage, one manservant on horseback behind him. Adams did some routine work in a makeshift office on the first floor of the still unfinished structure, ate supper, then took a candle to make his way up a servants' winding staircase to his bedroom. The main staircase...
This fall, about 700 first-years applied for spots in the Freshman Seminar program but the program could accommodate only 230 students. And according to Pedersen, the Freshman Seminary program has shrunk almost by half since the 1980s...
...Field Director Michael Whouley, sitting at Gore headquarters outside Nashville, noticed a peculiarity in the incoming Florida returns and paged Gore's traveling Chief of Staff Michael Feldman. Reached in the motorcade just two blocks from the Plaza, Feldman listened as Whouley explained that Bush's lead had shrunk to just 6,000 votes...