Breakthrough in Pancreatic Cancer

"You don’t generally hear much about pancreatic cancer, probably because it isn’t as common as breast, lung or prostate cancers, but perhaps also because there hasn’t been an improvement in the survival rate, the lowest of all major cancers, in nearly two decades. That might be about to change, thanks to the intense focus on stem cell research in recent years. In a report in the Feb. 1 (2006) issue of Cancer Research, investigators described finding strong evidence that pancreatic cancer is controlled by a small group of cells with stem cell-like properties (the ability to self-renew and differentiate). The cells were identified by the presence of three specific antibody markers on the cell surface."

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WSJ.com - Why Hedge Funds Are Feeling the Need To Burst Into Poetry

"Struggling to find just the right words to explain a run of bad luck to investors, money manager Michael Roth looked to literature for inspiration.
He found his muse in Edgar Allan Poe.
That is why Mr. Roth, who helps run Stark Investments, a Milwaukee hedge fund with $7.6 billion in assets, recently wrote one of his periodic letters to investors as a takeoff on 'The Raven':
But the silence was unbroken,
and the stillness gave no token;
And the only word there spoken
was the whispered word, 'Bernanke?'"

The poem goes on for three-and-a-half pages. Along the way, it not only refers to the new Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, but also manages to rhyme "trading floor" with "macroeconomic lore."