Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ingrained the mentality that a stolen bike will bring an officer to your doorstep quickly," says Aurora division chief Ronald Sloan. "That has to change...
Frequently, doctors use a variety of factors to determine which patients are at highest risk. One major consideration: tumor size. "One centimeter ((0.4 in.)) is considered the major turning point," says Dr. Larry Norton at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City. "Over 1 cm, and I lean very strongly toward additional treatment." A close look at the tumor cells will provide other clues, says Dr. William McGuire, chief of medical oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Misshapen cell nuclei, abnormal amounts of DNA or an accelerated rate of cell division...
...biological Rosetta stone that has enabled them to lay out in sharp detail the changes that cause a cell to go from normal to malignant. "The cancer cell used to be a black box," says Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., physician in chief of New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "But the lid of the black box has been opened, and we can see the wheels turning inside." The "wheels" are genes that regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process...
...gene splicing. But the automobile, with its 10,000 parts and ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "If Saturn is successful, it will prove that it's possible to junk the old bureaucracies, change the corporate culture, change the adversarial relationship between union and management, and put it all back together right. If they succeed, it will be a big positive for America...
...HOMER: HIS LATE PAINTINGS AND THEIR INFLUENCE, Cleveland Museum of Art. Often considered an isolated original, Homer is here seen as a figure of continuity. Fifteen of his views of the Maine coast are hung alongside 44 works by painters on whom he left his mark -- among them John Sloan, Edward Hopper and John Marin. Through...