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Fund managers said Harvard's $21 million housing allocation could spur other universities and community institutions to take similar steps...
That's because a tumor is made up of a hodgepodge of cells containing different genetic mutations, each of which allows it to wreak a different brand of havoc. Some mutations spur rapid growth; others prod nearby blood vessels into sprouting new capillaries; still others send cancer cells out into the bloodstream, where they can seed new tumors. Within 10 years, predicts Robert Weinberg, a cancer biologist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., "we will analyze the mutant genes and then tailor-make a treatment [for] that particular tumor...
...change, and the company shouldn't be worth any less Monday than it was on Friday. Moreover, most investors had good reason to expect this ruling." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding of fact, which strongly suggested he would find the company in breach of antitrust legislation, will likely spur Bill Gates to cut a deal. "Microsoft has to settle really quickly," says Quittner, "because a company of this size and importance can't afford to pin all of its hopes on the outcome of an appeal...
...However, until that day comes a warning to the wise is as follows, plan ahead because a spur of the moment party can be left high and dry in this Puritan state...
During a game against the Army Air Forces, Joe DiMaggio sent a Patkin pitch into the night. As DiMaggio trotted around the bases, Patkin, on the spur of the moment, decided to follow him and mimic...