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| For people of any age, the word ��쐁ancer��� has carried dire connotations for generations. Until recently, that ominous sense of cancer as a killer was literally true, at least for many forms of the disease. And just 10 years ago, there were few treatments apart from the crude and devastating ones, such as chemotherapy and radiation. |
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"Doctor on Call" Red |
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| Anyone who has ever had to wait for hours in a doctor��셲 office or an emergency room knows the feeling of frustration involved in accessing health care, not only when you need it, but when you want it. |
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| The device that is widely used to detect lies today, the polygraph, is simply too unreliable. It is too inaccurate for the results to be admissible in court cases. A 2002 report by the National Research Council concluded that the polygraph can��셳 distinguish innocent people from guilty ones. In response, the U.S. Department of Energy began relying less on the use of the polygraph to conduct security checks on its employees. |
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The Rise of the Mega |
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| With few exceptions, human history can be viewed as an upward trend in population density. We evolved from nomadic ��쐆unting and gathering��� societies to tribal villages, then to small towns, and ultimately to the grand and glittering cities we see today throughout the industrialized world. |
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| Americans are under siege by terrorists right now, but the primary source of the problem is not al Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist organization. The threat stems from home-grown activist groups with names like: the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. And it��셲 not just left-wing radicals who are causing the problems. Domestic terror threats include bombings by right-wing terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. |
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