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...inoculating a healthy person against a foreign body like a virus, cancer vaccines use parts of tumors to help the patients' immune systems recognize diseased cells. Follicular lymphoma, a generally slow-moving cancer of the immune system that affects roughly 5,000 Spaniards each year, presents an especially enticing target for vaccine researchers because its cells all carry a protein, called an idiotype, that distinguishes them from their healthy counterparts. Mixing the idiotype with other substances that trigger immunological responses, "the vaccine presents a tumor protein to the patients in such a way that their immune systems recognize...
...other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...
...says Alex Kyriakidis, global head of tourism, hospitality and leisure at industry consultants Deloitte. "But will they be a slam dunk success? The answer is no." They'll need to achieve year-round occupancy rates of more than 85% to be profitable, he says, which could prove a tough target in a segment of the market that is already competitive, and becoming more so. Established chains, such as the Hard Rock Hotels and Intercontinental's Indigo chain, are opening small-room, limited-service hotels in cities such as Chicago and Houston, and have international expansion plans, Kyriakidis says...
...Godelia, a sharp dresser partial to emphatic statements and enthusiastic hand gestures, insists he has been the target of unfair characterizations. Yesterday, he says, a Law School official took him out of lecture for Government 1092, “The Past and Future of the Left,” and told him he would not be able to attend any longer...
...semester, but the amounts requested fluctuate from week to week and year to year. The solution, therefore, is to develop a flexible budget—not for FiCom to throw up its hands and refuse to manage its money at all. It could, for example, allocate a weekly target and set aside a small surplus fund to cover particularly large packages. Or, it could use a monthly budgeting scheme to allow for particularly high and low weeks...