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...lung cancer and increasing its risk. If so, what does that mean for ex-smokers who rely on nicotine patches, gums and sprays? "Smokers who can quit should quit," says Dr. Phillip Dennis, lead author of the recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. "If you need a supplement, don't do it without medical supervision." Nicotine itself may not be a cancer-causing agent, but, according to Dennis, it activates a pathway in cancerous and normal lung cells that keeps cells alive even when they are damaged and should naturally die. As healthy cells acquire genetic defects from...
...doing a great job in a new role off the bench,” Delaney-Smith said. “I’m confident in Shana stepping up and taking a three...We have a lot of players who can put the ball in the basket that can supplement Hana [Peljto] and Reka [Cserny...
...effort to compensate for the older facilities, Dunster, Mather and Quincy host special culinary displays twice a week, which include made-to-order entrees that supplement the regular menu...
...earlier in the application, this section is not optional. Why not tell the applicants to fill out this section if—and only if—they think they fall into one of the two categories? Why not make a legacy check a box on the Harvard Application Supplement and expand the first additional essay topic from “Unusual circumstances in your life” to “Unusual circumstances in your life, including academic adversity overcome,” obviating the need for a family section on the Common Application altogether while more accurately describing...
...could smuggle nuclear material into the U.S.? Concerned enough that the U.S. Customs Service is quietly installing new technology to better detect radiation at mail facilities, airports, seaports, rail yards and across the U.S. border. The new "radiation-portal-detection systems," costing $100,000 to $150,000 apiece, will supplement current technology, which consists of radiation "pagers" worn on the belts of customs personnel. Containers and vehicles will pass through the devices, which can pick up a wider variety of radioactive emissions than the pagers, from weapons-grade plutonium to medical waste that could be used as shrapnel...