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...Calif., that's behind BZL101, there's hope too. The trial is the first FDA-validated clinical study of a potential cancer drug derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, says Dr. Mary Tagliaferri, a co-founder of the company, former practicing acupuncturist and a breast-cancer survivor. "Sixty-two percent of chemotherapy drugs come from natural products, and plants have been the basis of almost every new class of medication," she says. "It makes sense that these plants can act as anticancer agents...
...bank, which is 94-percent owned by its borrowers, has expanded over the past two decades. Since the bank began operations, 64 percent of its nearly 7.5 million borrowers have risen above the poverty line...
...1970s, it gradually removed quotas limiting women to a quarter of the entering college class. Recently, Harvard has worked hard to send the message that the college welcomes families from across the economic spectrum. As a result we have seen in the past 3 years a 33 percent increase in students from families with incomes under $60,000. Harvard’s dorms and Houses are the most diverse environments in which many of our students will ever live...
...change produced by a Nicholas Stern, a respected economist, for the British government, notes that the negative impacts of climate change will be borne disproportionately by the world’s poorest people. Even if, as the report suggests, the cost of global warming will amount to 5-14 percent of global GDP, it is hard for Americans to fixate even briefly on the environment when the recent mortgage market collapse threatens a far more severe and dispersed economic impact...
...purchasing,” she added. Green was quick to respond to the argument that regulation impinges on academic freedom. “I can see I’m being set up as the fall guy here,” Green said. “We lose 44 percent of what we lose through piracy on college campuses. There is no academic freedom in downloading a copy of the ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ while it’s out in theaters.” These issues have resurfaced in the national media this fall, with...