Word: spreading
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Just as important, the marker may lead to better screening tests. Early detection makes all the difference to colon-cancer patients. About 90% of people whose tumors are found early are still alive five years after their diagnosis. That figure plummets to less than 10% once the cancer has spread beyond the intestines. However, according to a recent study, the most widely used screening test, which detects blood in stool samples, misses more than 70% of all tumors...
...need a faculty position to spread your message through Agitprop; the group prides itself on-exposing Harvardians to new student talent. This year's highlights have included a number of undergraduate exhibits, including two shows in the Adams House squash courts, one in the lobby of the Carpenter Center, a travelling exhibit which passed through Eliot, Leverett, Adams and Hilles Library between February and May, and Matthew Butterick's graphic font exhibit at the Sackler. Stressing that the group is neither selective nor competitive, Agitprop welcomes all and more forms of student art (although they do admit a preference...
Another large construction project planned in the document is a possible "social science quad" north of the Yard for the economics and government departments especially, which would bring together the spread-out resources of the two departments...
...Drug Administration announced that it was preparing to approve a female condom -- a plastic pouch that lines the inside of the vagina. Named Reality by its U.S. manufacturer, Wisconsin Pharmacal, the product is similar to male condoms in that it is designed to prevent both pregnancy and the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...
...some cultures, it is more or less accepted that "straight" men will nonetheless have sex with other men. The rapid spread of AIDS in Brazil, for example, is attributed to homosexual behavior on the part of ostensibly heterosexual males. In the British upper class, homosexual experience used to be a not uncommon feature of male adolescence. Young Robert Graves went off to World War I pining desperately for his schoolboy lover, but returned and eventually married. And, no, he did not spend his time in the trenches buggering his comrades-in-arms...