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...guest when trying to get baby on board. Murkoff devotes an entire page to other acronyms, alphabetized and far more obscure: If BD is baby dance, a.k.a. sex, then DP translates as dancing partner. There's also BFN (big fat negative) and BFP (big fat positive) to describe pregnancy-test results, natch. And don't forget the appropriate salutation or, as the case may be, sign-off: FTTA (fertile thoughts...
...have occurred in February). So far, no pigs have been found to be infected with the virus, other than at one farm in Canada on May 2, where the swine were actually infected by a human worker. And on May 14, Smithfield announced that Mexican authorities had completed tests of the company's pigs in Perote and found no evidence of the virus in the swine. (It's not clear what test Mexican authorities used; only blood tests for antibodies can confirm the virus...
...class to count for SAT/UNSAT for the General Education curriculum. This policy will still need to pass a Faculty vote to be implemented, and it will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday. The Council passed a significantly revised Handbook for Students, which includes the minimum SAT Subject Test score of 700 to fulfill the foreign language requirement. There is also an entirely new section on the Gen Ed curriculum, which will be fully implemented this fall and required of all incoming members of the class of 2013. As of Wednesday, 51 Gen Ed classes have been approved...
With the new screening test, however, doctors can now potentially spare some patients chemotherapy and exposure to its often toxic side effects. Genomic Health, a biotechnology company, is hoping to launch the test commercially in 2010. The company isn't new to the field of cancer predictors: in 2007 it released the first test of this kind to predict the recurrence of breast cancer. That screen, known as Oncotype Dx, is used widely today and relies on a 21-gene assay to tell patients how likely their cancer is to recur and whether their tumors will respond to chemotherapy...
...latter capability is something the colon-cancer screen doesn't have - yet. But it's something that Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, believes is necessary to make the test truly useful for doctors and patients. "What this test clearly does is tell people that you have a greater likelihood of being in the group that is at high risk or low risk of having a recurrence, but it doesn't tell you that your risk will change if you get chemo...