Word: umbrellas
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...DONE Cancers can be frozen or vaporized with lasers or high-energy radiowaves delivered by a probe through a tiny incision. In one technique, the probe opens like an umbrella inside the breast...
...Texas in Houston and the Weill Cornell Center in New York City are experimenting with high-frequency radio waves that can literally cook tumors from the inside. Using ultrasound to guide them, doctors insert a multipronged probe into a tumor. The prongs open up like the spokes of an umbrella and melt malignant cells without burning surrounding breast tissue. So far, the procedure has been performed only on women who were planning to get a mastectomy or lumpectomy anyway. But early results have been encouraging enough that physicians hope to test it as a stand-alone procedure this spring...
RAZA, Fuerza Latina and Concilio Latino, an umbrella organization for Latino student groups at Harvard’s various schools, threatened to withdraw from yesterday’s rally after Monday’s controversy. But after tensions cooled, they agreed to rejoin the protest...
Epps previously approached administrators about publishing a brochure to advertise such courses. But administrators rejected his proposal, saying the Committee on Women’s Studies already serves as an umbrella department for issues of sexuality...
...It’s something that the University really exploits. I can’t think of any group as praiseworthy as our students are.” Griffin works for both PBH (the building and department of the Faculty of Arts and Science) and PBHA (the non-profit umbrella service organization that includes the Progressive Student Labor Movement). “I’m a janitor for PBH but I identify with PBHA only,” he says. “I even identify with people like the PSLM. I’m a Reagan Republican...