Word: wakefulness
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...will most likely consider are Temodar, an oral drug, and Gliadel, a wafer embedded with a cancer-killing drug that surgeons place in the brain after the tumor is removed. The wafer dissolves over a period of two weeks and, if successful, destroys any remaining cancer cells in its wake. Radiation therapy for glioma usually begins two weeks following surgery, and lasts for about six weeks, says Dr. Henry Brem, director of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who helped develop Gliadel and is not involved in Kennedy's treatment...
...video rages across the Web, it leaves in its wake a flood of commentary from viewers who see it as everything from a tasteless marketing ploy to a brutally effective critique of the media's portrayal of the banlieues, the desolate and poor neighborhoods on the edge of French cities, which exploded in violence in the autumn of 2005. On a British video webforum, a viewer named Scooper enthused, "awesome - powerful and driven like a car with no brakes," adding "finally a video that makes me feel something!" Blogging in Finland, DJ Orion called it Justice's "worst video...
...Sunday] was a good wake-up call,” Mulcahy said. “We saw that you really just have to be at your best in the heat and then again in the final. Yesterday we weren’t quite there--but I think we’ve made progress since the dual season ended and I think that experience will help...
This week, British members of Parliment and members of the Lords will gather for a second reading of a bill to allow genetically-modified (GM) embryos to be created for research purposes. This bill comes in the wake of the first successful creation of a GM human embryo at Cornell University, which took advantage of a lack of regulation on human cloning in New York State. More than a decade after the media spectacle surrounding Dolly the sheep, cloning seems to have fallen under the radar, while the legal environment surrounding it remains nebulous...
...sign for justice that last week, in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, Kentucky death row inmate Marco Allen Chapman announced again that he wants to his lawyers to stop fighting for his life. "I guess it's kind of my Christian upbringing," he told an AP reporter. "Suicide is unforgivable. I figure if I'm not doing it to myself, it's not a suicide." The Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammed also raised his hand briefly, asking in a letter for the state to go ahead and "murder this innocent black man." (He later reversed course and said...