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...Larger or more aggressive tumors usually require chemotherapy, which can be a problem. Whereas breast cancer, for example, often succumbs to any of eight to 10 powerful drugs, there has until recently been only one drug strong enough to battle colon cancer--a drug that was developed in the 1950s called 5-fluorouracil...
...serve as an affront to more purposeful lives. The most engaging character on the 1950s sitcom My Little Margie was the boyfriend, Freddie, whose job consisted of spending the day looking at construction sites. My favorite scene in Catcher in the Rye occurs when Holden is in his public-speaking class. The teacher orders the students to yell out the word digression! whenever a speech loses focus or direction. Holden is, of course, a living digression...
...more than 20 websites and online businesses. At age 12, I was making more business decisions than many adults do. It makes me sick when my teachers treat me like an inferior who needs to be whipped into shape. We aren't living in the 1950s. Technology has put us far ahead. One day teenagers will disappear: we will be treated just like everyone else. JOEL HOLLAND, AGE 15 McLean...
...founded his university in 1927, explicit anti-Catholicism was a staple of conservative American Protestantism. Americans alarmed at the influx of Irish and Italian immigrants took solace in Reformation descriptions of the Pope as the Whore of Babylon. Eventually most American Protestants left anti-Catholicism behind, and from the 1950s on, Billy Graham led many Evangelicals toward a greater tolerance. Jones, however, reviled Graham. (He later reviled even Jerry Falwell.) His fundamentalist separatism suspended B.J.U. in amber on topics from anti-Catholicism to its ban on interracial dating (which led to the revocation of its tax-exempt status). Today B.J.U...
...question-and-answer session following her reading, Chang said she encountered some difficulties in trying to get her work published. She said many American book publishers want Asian-American writers to include elements of the "exotic," while her book focuses on her mother's flight from China and the 1950s suburban lives of her mother and three of her friends as they adapted to the United States...