Word: tailoring
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...sunny Cambridge Friday, the kind of day tailor-made for protesters. At the Science Center, the last-minute initiative of Diversity & Distinction editor Marques J. Redd ’03 and Asian-American Association (AAA) Co-President Sophia Lai ’04, among others, has prompted a number of students to rally. What’s the cause? Redd is handing out flyers that explain...
...initially sweats through the Shanghai summer conspicuously out of place in his dead father's Sunday best ("meant to be worn in a Yorkshire winter, not in the stifling heat of the Far East"). Before long?with the help of an uncle in high places?he's in a tailor-made, lightweight suit, sipping his first glass of champagne and taking in his first burlesque show...
...also a courageous book. At the outset Goñi, the son of an Argentine ambassador, asserts that Argentina is a morally-blind country with a "fabricated" history that anyone can tailor to their requirements. He compares Perón's corrupt rule with the murderous 1976-83 military dictatorship that did away with 20,000 of its opponents. Both regimes, he argues, existed because Argentines opted for silence in the face of evil. Goñi has laid down a challenge to the "wall of silence" mentality that allowed Argentina's history to be so sordidly stained...
Ideally, Singletary would like to be able to tailor each woman's treatment to the characteristics of her particular tumor. Already scientists have identified a biological marker called the HER2 receptor, whose presence usually signifies a very aggressive cancer. For the past four years, a drug called Herceptin has been given to women with metastatic tumors that make a lot of the HER2 protein. Now trials are being conducted to see if Herceptin, which may have some deleterious effects on the heart, will nonetheless help other women with smaller tumors that haven't yet spread...
...calculating") throughout 36 different textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. In the summer of 2000 it launched Homeroom.com an online bank of more than 120,000 practice questions, which helps teachers pinpoint their students' strengths and weak spots. Like its competitor Kaplan, The Princeton Review offers workshops to help teachers tailor their daily lessons to state exams. The firm's latest offering: a $1,950 primer for parents on test-taking skills that, among other things, instructs them to serve an extra-large breakfast on test day because "it's better to take an exam bloated than on an empty stomach...