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Avastin

a: Avastin ~
b: Crime

What: The comment I heard, I wish I could remember the site was than Avastin was like taking the knives away form the criminals, so they went out and got guns. It may make cancer cells more virulent.

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Writer: LucretiaGermanica
LCC: RM
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 20 2009 10:55 AM


Fine Art Funding

a: Columbus Association for the Performing Arts ~
b: Sams Club of Fine Art

What: I heard about this organization on the radio. The analogy made by someone who helped run the organization. I guess consolidation saves money in just about every situation.

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Writer: lucreatia_germanica
LCC: N
Where:
Date: May 24 2010 11:56 PM


The Tetris Analogy

a: Intermediate filament ~
b: enormous tetris game

What: "In this analogy, a fully formed intermediate filament is like an enormous tetris game containing only s-units, and all of them fit together perfectly to make many"

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Writer: George Plopper
LCC:
Where:
Date: Feb 25 2014 6:48 PM



a: machismo ~
b: poetry

What:

"If you are old enough to own a handgun, you should be beyond what other people think, IMHO. Overt machismo is like poetry, they're both the last refuge of sissies, and no one cares...

Just kidding to make a point. ;) Good poetry has a lot more value than forced machismo! OTOH, bad poetry... "


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Writer: FEG
LCC:
Where:
Date: May 1 2014 7:08 PM



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