Word: tailorization
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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...
...course, hasn't been charged with anything yet. But in the emerging court of public opinion he's become a radioactive character in a drama tailor-made for a class war. Democrats are poised to gin up every kind of Congressional committee they can think of this spring to very loudly look into the matter of why, on one hand, there are a host of impoverished Enron employees out there who had their non-diversified nest eggs cracked when the company's 401(k) plan was "frozen" during the stock's worst slide - and Lay and Enron executives...
...SOMALIA: The failed state in the Horn of Africa looks tailor-made for a hangout for al-Qaeda. The country has no central government to speak of. Like Afghanistan, it's divided into fiefdoms presided over by competing clan leaders and warlords whose temporary loyalties can readily be bought. Muslim by faith, most Somalis are impoverished nomads who move between temporary huts. And Somalia has a homegrown militant group called al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (Unity of Islam) that the U.S. says is linked to al-Qaeda. The group was once host to a few training camps near the Kenyan border...
...historical” literary criticism—a gap that the History and Literature Department attempts to narrow through its interdisciplinary approach. “We felt the need for a venue where we could celebrate that distinctive Hist and Lit method, without having to tailor it to fit a purely ‘historical’ or ‘literary’ approach,” she said...