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...continue to have high mortality rates, one reason cancer still kills 560,000 Americans every year. Side effects remain an issue as well, though antinausea medications are now so good that some doctors say it's rare for their patients to vomit. And drugs that prevent anemia and a drop in white blood cells mean patients can carry on with life's activities without the constant dread of contracting infections. Still, anxiety remains a steady companion for people living with cancer. "Dealing with the worry around tests and how well the drugs are working for recurrent cancer...
...even reach 150,000 in 2007, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology consulting firm in California's Silicon Valley. Bajarin expects that mini-PC sales won't near the million-a-year mark until 2009 and may fall far short if prices don't drop fast. "To get into the millions of units, they'll have to sell for no more than $599," Bajarin says...
...operating office buildings and homes is responsible for 38% of U.S. CO2 emissions. In the case of offices, mid--20th century technology worked against us, as the development of low-temperature fluorescent lights and high-powered air conditioning made it possible to design sealed structures that you could drop into any climate. "It gave architects the power to design anything, then hand it over to engineers and say, 'Here, you heat and cool it,'" says Gail Brager of the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California, Berkeley...
...prayed so hard and cried so much for God to drop something from the skies...
...Wharf Theater, Brendan Cowell is talking about the time he gave up drinking for 11 months in 2005. "And I didn't even have one of those brandy chocolates," says the 30-year-old playwright and actor, his laconic bearing becoming increasingly animated. "I didn't have a drop, because I favor a couple of drinks, and my whole world just changed in the most beautiful fashion and in the strangest and darkest as well." Around this time in the interview, Cowell's hand accidentally clips the tape recorder, sending a pair of sunglasses flying off the table. "Whoops...