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...Asian and Pacific affairs. His nomination follows the appointments of seventeen members from the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, according to the Belfer Center’s spring newsletter. Prior to founding CNAS with Belfer Center colleague Michele Flournoy—the White House’s current undersecretary of defense for policy—Campbell served as an associate professor of Public Policy and International Relations at the Kennedy School. He was also the assistant director of the Belfer Center. Currently, Campbell holds leadership positions at a variety of prominent political organizations...
Kassis’ test looks to circulating tumor cells—any tumor, no matter how small, sheds tumor cells into the bloodstream. These cells typically die on their own, and are cleaned up by phagocytes—a type of white blood cell. The test examines whether markers of ingested tumor cells are detectable in the patient’s phagocytes. The results are then compared to an non-phagocytic white blood cells, such as lymphocytes. Kassis said that he conceived of this approach due to his background in immunology. While this field is typically far removed from radiology...
...achieved partly because of high participation by those states' large black electorates, as well as the infusion of relatively affluent transplants who aren't beholden to the region's old-school political regimes. Now, of course, the Republican Party is struggling to move beyond its base of rural Southern white Protestants and into the Midwest and Northeast. So the governor's races quickly taking shape in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and in Alabama will be key tests of whether the Democrats can extend their recent gains. (Watch a video where Artur Davis and others discuss who should be TIME...
...school, where Barack Obama was a couple years ahead. Davis eschewed joining a New York or Washington law firm, and became a federal prosecutor, frequently handling drug cases. In 1998, he joined a prominent Birmingham law firm, Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, where he specialized in employment and white-collar criminal cases...
...near the bottom of the nation's education achievement tests, and what would Davis, as governor, do about it? "We pat ourselves on the back when we move from 46 to 42 in education," he tells the audience, standing in front of a large blue sign that says, in white and red ink, DAVIS 2010. There are a couple "uh-huhs" and "hmmmms" from the crowd, as the candidate makes clear Alabamans need "more of a sense of ambition than we've ever...