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Which It Is It? Resolving Ambiguous Pronouns: English Teachers Would B
"Medicines can be harmful to young children. Make sure you keep them locked in the bathroom cabinet."This humorous warning demonstrates a common grammatical error - ambiguous pronouns. Most of the time, common sense kicks in and we know we're supposed to lock medication in the bathroom cabinet and not the kids. In other instances, however, the clarification of these phrases is not always so obvious. USC Researchers Determine Mechanism Of Action Of Chemotherapy Drug
The chemotherapy drug motexafin gadolinium works to thwart cancer cells by disrupting key enzymes involved in cellular metabolism. The Game of Art
Can a game be a work of art? We'll never agree, but in Okami, you must create art to get anywhere. Commentary by Clive Thompson. Genetics Has Key Role In Obesity
A new line of evidence ties the risk of obesity to genetics. The modern Pima Indians have an unusually high rate of obesity but the new findings could be extrapolated to other populations. Mussels Inspire New Surgical Glue Possibilities
In a few years'time, instead of fiddling with needle and thread, surgeons may simply use glue to connect implants to living tissue. They took their idea from mussels, which can stick to any surface, be it porous rock or the smooth hull of a ship. It sounds like a venturous plan: Implants such as artificial heart valves and vessels are to be welded to the body's own tissue using a special glue, completely obviating the need for bothersome sutures. The bond will be rapidly hardened by UV light, so that only 30 seconds later, the foreign object is firmly implanted in the patient's body. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Method Holds Promise In Identifying Markers Of Non-metastatic Vs. Meta
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have used a new strategy to identify differences between non-metastatic and highly metastatic breast cancer cells. The article by Valerie Montel et al., "Expression profiling of primary tumors and matched lymphatic and lung metastases in a xenogeneic breast cancer model,"appears in the May 2005 issue of The American Journal of Pathology and is accompanied by a commentary. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts
How do you hide something as big and bright as a galaxy? You smother it in cosmic dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope saw through such dust to uncover a hidden population of monstrously bright galaxies approximately 11 billion light-years away. Dealing With Threatening Space Rocks
Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media -- sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious craters which may have been caused by impacting meteorites; all make ESA's planned mission Don Quijote look increasingly timely. Stick It to the Man
In the game Ragdoll Avalance II, control the life of a very floppy stick figure with a low tolerance for falling blades. In Table of Malcontents.
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