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...drugs are more like smart bombs. Some of them target communication signals within malignant cells, some cut off supply lines by interfering with the growth of blood vessels around a tumor, and others block the chemical agents that enable tumors to expand into new territory. These more targeted therapies tend to focus on frantically proliferating cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact...
...Patients whose cancer moves into the bone tend to survive longer than those with metastases in the liver or lung. Russell says that she has a few patients who have survived 10 years with bone involvement, but this is extremely rare. The fact that Elizabeth Edwards relapsed just a little over two years after initial treatment is a bad sign, suggesting that her cancer is very aggressive. On the plus side, though, is that Edwards' disease is "low volume", according to her oncologist, Lisa Carey of Chapel Hill, N.C., meaning little tumor is present. Also favorable, says Russell, is that...
This is the way of financial innovations, which tend to be used to excess at least once until people figure out what the true risks are. It's also why those on the financial cutting edge (like hedge funds) are often barred from pitching their products to anyone but the wealthy. That mortgage lenders were allowed to flog their negative-amortization, adjustable-rate mortgages and balloon loans without restriction does not reflect well on either Congress or state regulators. Now Congress is likely to do something about subprime lending...
What's more, says Solan, we tend to make sense of things by fitting them into stereotypical models, or "prototypes." We have prototypes for the guilty as well as the innocent. In practice, this means a defendant who "looks more guilty than innocent may be convicted, whether or not the prosecutor proves the elements of the crime," explains Solan...
...There’s not that many [6’8]...kids that are that athletic and can throw the ball like he can,” says Harvard assistant coach Todd Carroll, who primarily works with pitchers and catchers. “I mean, those guys tend to get a shot at pro ball when it’s all said and done...