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Familiar But Unfamiliar. The two types of cancer involved are called basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...
Princeton introduced its pass-fail option to insulate undergraduates from bureaucratic pressures for grade-grubbing. It reduced by one the number of courses that are graded, so that a student could experiment with an unfamiliar subject within his normal program...
...long, sub-zero winters. They often melt enough snow to allow deer and cattle to forage for food on the uncovered ground. In Los Angeles last week, as the smog was temporarily displaced by dry, clear air, residents out for an evening walk could look up to see an unfamiliar and refreshing sight: the stars...
...Harvard cross-country team has won the Big Three title for the last three years. Even so, when the harriers travel to New Haven today they will be cast in the unfamiliar role of underdogs against undefeated Princeton and once-beaten Yale...
...think there are perhaps very few individuals who cannot identify with your timely Essay on petitions [Oct. 14]. It is very often too great a temptation to sign a petition advocating an issue one is totally unfamiliar with or affected by, merely because uninformed "big names" have publicly endorsed a view and aroused one's status-seeking subconscious. I am a strong proponent of viewing the pros and cons of an issue and then privately voting on the issue. That's when your vote really counts! Public testimonials by inexpert individuals should be limited to television deodorant commercials...