New skin cancer therapy shrinks tumors

A new drug for melanoma has been shown to rapidly shrink malignant tumors in an early trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York. Among 27 patients whom the experimental new drug was tested on, “19 showed a 30 percent or greater reduction in tumor size,” Dr

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Durbin:’Time for President Bush to face the reality of Iraq’

Below is the text of Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin’s speech on Wednesday, the Democratic response to President Bush’s address to the nation on a revised strategy in the Iraq war: Such has been the Internet’s phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically and without much forward planning

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Liquid specs a bold vision for world’s poor

In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don’t have access to the eye glasses they need. But a pair of glasses developed by Joshua Silver, a physics professor at the University of Oxford, offers an affordable solution

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Cambridge sergeant: Obama slighted police community

The police officer who arrested a black Harvard professor says President Obama offended police when he accused Cambridge authorities of acting stupidly. “I was a little surprised and disappointed that the president, who didn’t have all of the facts by his own admission, then weighed in on the events of that night and made a comment that really offended not just officers in the Cambridge Police Department but officers around the country,” Sgt

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