Specter’s sunset: Voters turn away from high-profile senator

Specter’s sunset: Voters turn away from high-profile senator
ALLENTOWN — Centrism and just plain survival made Arlen Specter part of the nation’s political fabric for nearly half a century, his cancer-fighting, party-switching story as much about evading death as writing laws.
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One Bullet Away: A Marines View from Afghanistan and Iraq

Hear about Marine Corps life, in peacetime and in war, from Nathaniel Fick, the Chief Operating Officer of the Center for a New American Security. He served as Marine Corps infantry officer in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and is the author of the best-selling book, One Bullet Away. Series: A Military Life [4/2010] [Public Affairs] [...]

Second only south Atlantic tropical storm: 90Q, moving away from Brazil

Second only south Atlantic tropical storm: 90Q, moving away from Brazil
Tropical Storm 90Q is the second known tropical cyclone to form in the cooler South Atlantic Ocean, and two NASA satellites confirm it is now moving away from Brazil’s coast. The first tropical cyclone ever seen in recorded history in the Southern Atlantic was called [...]

Frontiers in Cancer Diagnostics: Chipping Away at Cancer

Clinical practice informs basic science research, and that research in turn informs clinical practice. In the field of oncology discoveries in molecular biology and genetics have revolutionized clinical care for patients with cancer. This series begins at the “bench” with Katherine Hyland and Joseph derisi describing genomic alterations that occur in cancer cells and how [...]