Word: presentation
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...clothes and we all wear black. The reason is not because they are the only ones who patronize three card monte dealers in Times Square. The reason is not even that you can't get close to a counter in Saks Fifth Avenue to buy your wife a Christmas present...
...report, but we want to clarify one point for your readers. Our device is a valuable tool for radiation treatment given in the operating room at the time of tumor removal and for the treatment of brain tumors for which radiation is used instead of surgery. At the present time, it is not a replacement for standard radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Clinical trials are under way, however, that could prove that treatment during surgery using our device may be the only therapy needed. EUAN THOMSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO Photoelectron Corp. Lexington, Mass...
...Reiner was present for the dying of the light. He had stopped over at the Gores' for a roast-chicken dinner after hosting an event for his I Am Your Child foundation. He was polishing off his lemon tart when word came that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling was imminent. They flipped on CNN in the dining room, and Reiner watched transfixed with Tipper and three of the children while Gore got on the phone for a conference call with his lawyers. "There we were getting the opinion, slow page by slow page over the fax machine...
...opinion tossed over history's transom like a ransom note penned by Kafka. You have to wonder if the Supreme Court, instead of reading election results, is now in the business of making them. The court warned that its ruling was custom fit: "Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances...equal protection...generally presents many complexities." You bet it does: like flawed machines that disproportionately failed to record legally cast votes in inner-city precincts. Or the purging of voter rolls by a firm hired by Bush's brother that disproportionately disenfranchised blacks...
...with sushi, could be good for your teeth. Japanese researchers find that an ingredient in the Asian horseradish (no, it's not mustard) seems to inhibit the growth of bacteria linked to cavities. If raw fish doesn't hold much appeal, the cavity-fighting compounds, called isothiocyanates, are also present in cabbage...