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...hasn't wasted any time taking his own advice. He and a colleague at Wake Forest have already spun a private business around the study's results - Proactive Genomics, which, like many similar companies that have sprung up recently, will offer a personal genetic test. This one, however, says Xu, will be the world's first genetic screen for a specific disease. To assess cancer risk, patients and doctors currently rely on physical symptoms, age, race, family history and PSA screens - tests that measure blood levels of prostate-specific antigens, which are produced in high amounts by an unhealthy prostate...
...upon row of tidy assumptions and dead certainties. As that front moved east, the weather changed; spring, the season of rebirth, came to New Hampshire. Snowbanks softened, toppling the yard signs; the Ice Queen melted. By nightfall, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, two veterans once left for dead, had sprung back to life...
...just yet. Careful manipulating of his private life in the press has become an established part of his communications strategy: for example, he'll invariably allow his personal life to dominate when he wants to divert media attention away from political troubles. That was certainly the case when he sprung his romance with Bruni on a French public that had been watching Sarkozy take a prolonged bashing over his hosting incorrigible Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. And it was déjà vu when he announced his long-anticipated divorce on the same day he faced the first massive strikes...
...latest moves follow a series of financial aid initiatives that have sprung up in the last few years in the Ivy League. In 2004, Harvard announced the Harvard Financial Initiative, aimed at lowering or eliminating the burden for lower-income families. Yale announced a similar program...
...programs (real per capita social spending increased by 30 percent% from 1998 to 2004) , Venezuela’s pernicious levels of inequality and poverty are being engaged, even if gradually. Perhaps more impressively, communal councils and workplace cooperatives (as of 2006, 100,000 cooperatives employing 700,000 workers) have sprung up in an ambitious attempt to return power to the people, and with the ultimate intention of transcending the liberal logic of representation. Along with this, of course, Chavez’s authority has certainly grown. And as suggested by a few of the proposed amendments last week, he seems...