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...That new perspective provided fertile ground for the growth of new classes of cancer therapies. While older drugs were like heavy artillery - obliterating cancer cells but causing lots of collateral damage - newer drugs are more like smart bombs. Some of them target communication signals within malignant cells, some cut off supply lines by interfering with the growth of blood vessels around a tumor, and others block the chemical agents that enable tumors to expand into new territory. These more targeted therapies tend to focus on frantically proliferating cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Live with Cancer | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...good question, but this is a very smart supernatural thriller and there are definitely these elements of the movie that people are asking, and I love that it makes people want to ask these questions about faith and lack of faith, and it has this intense Biblical place, but more than anything, it's just a fun movie that's entertaining and suspenseful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions for Hilary Swank | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...really thankful for that. People probably think that there's probably an amount of, I don't know, drama or something that may come with them, but that's good. That's what I would hope people would think that I would do something that would be smart, because [The Reaping] is definitely a smart supernatural thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Questions for Hilary Swank | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...After all, the athletic (read: black) guys need to push the ball up the court and run one-on-one plays to showcase their skills. You can't hold them back by running that 1960s hayseed Princeton junk. Plus, only the smart, 1500-SAT (read: white) kids can learn those sets. The slower (read: very white) players need to milk the clock, move without the ball and throw those tricky backdoor passes to compete. So goes the code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race and the Georgetown Offense | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

...with that? With luck, some of those kids will go on to discover O'Keeffe, Agnes Martin and Sally Mann. Or Kara Walker, Janet Cardiff and Kiki Smith. There are some names in there you don't know? Look them up on the Internet. You can bet a few smart kids will. That's how they'll find out how much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Women Have Done to Art | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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