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...happened, Bradfield's tumor cells had a characteristic present in about 30% of breast-cancer cells: too many copies of a gene known as HER-2/neu. This gene makes a protein that helps relay the signal telling cells to divide. Having too much of it is associated with an especially rampaging, hard-to-treat cancer. Once this form of breast cancer metastasizes, a patient typically has just six to 12 months to live...
Back and forth go the worries, while in reality the economy has been riding a fine line of perfection: slow growth, low inflation, steady profits. In retrospect it's clear that the constantly reversing worries were a signal that there was nothing to worry about. Bearing that out are stock market gains averaging 31% a year since 1995. One day there will actually be a problem, and rates will move up to crush inflation or down to rub out a recession. Either way, stocks will take a beating at some point in the cycle. But we're not there...
...merger passes regulatory muster, it could signal the start of a new round of combinations. Already AT&T and Bell Atlantic are both eyeing BellSouth as an attractive dance partner. And Ameritech could give SBC the muscle to realize CEO Edward Whitacre's long-held dream -- a takeover of the mothership via a merger with AT&T.
...some have noted growing numbers of students requesting to transfer between houses or move off-campus, and many others have simply observed a marked sense of student detachment from house life. Even worse, some tutors have witnessed a significant increase in the number of acts of vandalism, a potential signal of apathy...
...Neil got on the phone right away and urged[the coalition] to continue their battles," Rowesaid. "[We wanted it to be] a clear signal thatthe person in the center of the debate was onlygoing to redouble his efforts...