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...Science has long searched for a means of controlling tumors, which can grow from pinhead to marble size in little more than a week. Dr. M. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School has found a clue as to how this may be accomplished. The growth of solid cancers appears to require the presence of a recently identified protein substance called tumor angiogenesis factor (T.A.F.). Though Folkman has been working with a variety of solid tumors, he told a neurosurgeons' meeting last week that his chief target has been certain malignancies of the brain, where the need for blood supply...
...mountains of Griffith Park in the center of L.A. any warm evening now, park on a cliff edge and see the city dying. The smog has a topography all its own these days, massive chocolate mountains of it below you to the east, a permanent black tumor over Hollywood and the downtown area seeping in channels through the passes out into the Valley and on into the Mojave Desert; to the west, over West L.A., Inglewood and Santa Monica, the smog is unexplainably green, and you realize that you are surrounded by a rainbow of smog...
...Judah Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, told a seminar of the American Cancer Society that the protein--tumor; angiogenesis factor (TAF)--is required by solid tumors to develop capillaries necessary for growth...
Folkman told members of the seminar in Clearwater, Fla, that without the TAF, the tumor becomes trapped in its waste products and is not supplied with the nutrients necessary for growth beyond the size of a pinhead...
...known as artists first and only incidentally as women. "To be put in any category not defined by one's work," states Portraitist Elaine de Kooning, "is to be falsified." Eva [Hesse, the brilliantly gifted German-born sculptor who died two years ago of a brain tumor at the age of 34, is a case in point: her work belonged, and contributed on exactly level terms, to the kind of antiformalist direction in American sculpture that Robert Morris' felt pieces and Carl Andre's floor sculpture also represented...