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42,420	986	12	0	who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''	`` paul revere 's ride '' was an instant hit -lrb- except with historians -rrb- .
42,421	986	13	0	who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''	on the recent anniversary of paul revere 's real ride , what lesson can paul revere 's imaginary ride teach us ?
42,422	987	0	1	what is the `` sunflower state '' ?	even across the sunflower state , the temperature varied from the middle 70s in southeast kansas to the middle 20s in northwest sections on saturday .
42,423	988	0	1	who wrote `` fiddler on the roof ? ''	he did jerry bock and sheldon harnick 's first success , `` fiorello , '' as well as their biggest , `` fiddler on the roof . ''
42,424	989	0	1	how old is the universe ?	a team of nasa astronomers says its measurements to pulsating stars suggest that the universe is about 12 billion years old , somewhat younger than earlier estimates .
42,425	989	1	1	how old is the universe ?	a team of cosmic observers has concluded that the universe is about 12 billion years old _ a far more precise date than previous estimates _ and that it is expanding at an accelerating pace that will essentially continue forever .
42,426	989	2	1	how old is the universe ?	freedman , however , does not claim that her team 's number is `` final , '' and agrees that the universe might well turn out to be 13.5 billion years old , depending on what its total mass is .
42,427	989	3	1	how old is the universe ?	a team of scientists led by an astronomer from the carnegie observatories in pasadena , calif. , has completed a survey of 800 stars called cepheid variables , and it indicates that the universe is probably between 12 billion and 13.5 billion years old .
42,428	989	4	1	how old is the universe ?	even if the universe were only 12 billion years old , it would be 2,182 , 612 times older than eusebius thought it was .
42,429	989	5	1	how old is the universe ?	an important team of scientists with extremely good eyesight just figured out that the universe is possibly 12 billion years old .
42,430	989	6	1	how old is the universe ?	before hubble , scientists thought the universe was only about 10 billion years old , which was weird because they knew that certain stars actually were 12 billion years old .
42,431	989	7	1	how old is the universe ?	but the hubble proved that the universe is at least 12 billion years old , so the scientists were lucky there .
42,432	989	8	1	how old is the universe ?	now , the thing that has always bugged me about outer space , the universe and everything is that , if the universe is 12 billion years old , what was there before the universe formed .
42,433	989	9	1	how old is the universe ?	london , march 4 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the universe is about 15 billion years old , a united states research group said after calculating the distance between stars .
42,434	989	10	0	how old is the universe ?	q. how old is the universe , and will it continue to expand or eventually contract back in , like a bungee cord ?
42,435	989	11	0	how old is the universe ?	a. give or take a few minutes , the universe is about 10 billion years old , or 14 billion , or 18 billion , depending on who you talk to .
42,436	989	12	0	how old is the universe ?	since then , other astronomers have used the hubble constant to estimate the age of the universe as anywhere from 10 billion to 20 billion years old .
42,437	989	13	0	how old is the universe ?	sandage has a much different calculation for the hubble constant and argued that the universe could be anywhere between 14 billion and 18 billion years old , depending on its total mass .
42,438	989	14	0	how old is the universe ?	in a report being published friday in the journal science , he concludes that the universe is most probably about 13.4 billion years old , give or take 1.6 billion years .
42,439	989	15	0	how old is the universe ?	old theories that the gravity of the universe would eventually cause it to collapse many billions of years from now _ in what astronomers have termed a `` big crunch '' _ are now widely discarded .
42,440	989	16	0	how old is the universe ?	so how old is the universe ?
42,441	989	17	0	how old is the universe ?	for some reason , this does not sound like a very broad range of numbers , though in fact a universe that is 20 billion years old is twice as old as one that is merely 10 billion years old .
42,442	989	18	0	how old is the universe ?	neither does the fact that , given these new numbers , the universe is only a little more than three times as old as life on earth .
42,443	989	19	0	how old is the universe ?	a guy was invited to some old friends ' home for dinner .
42,444	989	20	0	how old is the universe ?	their child , who seemed to be about a year old , pointed at the photo and said something in baby talk that i could n't understand .
42,445	989	21	0	how old is the universe ?	times have changed department : karen hanauer was on a down escalator at saks fifth avenue when a little girl , about 4 years old , passed by going up .
42,446	989	22	0	how old is the universe ?	was it just a big old empty space , like a strip mall department store just waiting for some cosmic tenant to move in ?
42,447	989	23	0	how old is the universe ?	but since they measure the expansion in kilometers instead of good old american `feet , ` you know it 's serious .
42,448	989	24	0	how old is the universe ?	can that somewhere hold an entire expanding universe ?
6,169	98	0	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the field was given an enormous boost by taxol , a promising anticancer compound derived from the bark of the pacific yew tree , a conifer found in the remaining virgin forests of the us 's pacific northwest .
6,170	98	1	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	conservationists are worried that in the rush to extract taxol from the bark of the pacific yew tree , remaining stands of the tree will be obliterated .
6,171	98	2	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	however , mcchesney said researchers have now found that taxol can be extracted from the yew 's needles , rather than its bark .
6,172	98	3	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	news that the fda had approved the marketing of taxol , a promising new cancer drug derived from the pacific yew tree , helped shares in bristol-myers advance dollars 3/4 to dollars 68 1/2 .
6,173	98	4	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the us government yesterday approved the use of taxol - a potential cancer fighter derived from the bark of pacific yew trees - for ovarian cancer patients who have not responded to other treatments , reuter reports from washington .
6,174	98	5	1	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	analysts have predicted sales of taxol , derived from the bark of rare pacific yew trees , of up to dollars 50m -lrb- pounds 33.1m -rrb-
6,175	98	6	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	taxol is now being tested against ovarian and breast cancers .
6,176	98	7	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the us national cancer institute first discovered taxol in the 1960s but saw its natural products program languish in the 1980s .
6,177	98	8	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the controversy surrounding taxol has underscored the issue of supply .
6,178	98	9	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	bristol-myers has received permission to market taxol to women with ovarian cancer who have failed to respond to chemotherapy .
6,179	98	10	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	taxol is being studied for a number of other cancer uses including breast , lung and head and neck cancers .
6,180	98	11	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	an advisory panel of the us food and drug administration -lrb- fda -rrb- yesterday recommended marketing approval for the drug taxol to treat ovarian cancer which does not respond to standard treatment , writes karen zagor in new york .
6,181	98	12	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	morphine is derived from opium , for example , and penicillin is a fungal metabolite .
6,182	98	13	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	james mcchesney , director of the research institute for pharmaceutical sciences at the university of mississippi estimates the compound generates as much as dollars 300m a year in sales in europe .
6,183	98	14	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the drug is an analog of campotothecin , a compound extracted from trees in china and india .
6,184	98	15	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	the company is studying analogs of the compound and it is searching for new plant medicines as part of a research consortium with the university of illinois in chicago , one of the leading academic centres involved in medicinal plants .
6,185	98	16	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	another promising product is artemisinin , an antimalarial drug originally derived from a plant found in china and south-east asia , according to mcchesney .
6,186	98	17	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	'the excitement is that the compound is effective for drug -resistant malaria and is practically a miraculous drug for cerebral malaria , a serious form of the disease , ' he said .
6,187	98	18	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	artemesia annua , from which the compound is derived , is a 'worldwide naturalised weed , ' said mcchesney .
6,188	98	19	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	'by using traditional knowledge there is greater likelihood of yielding an active compound or a pharmaceutical , ' said lisa conte , shaman 's president .
6,189	98	20	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	shaman is the traditional name for 'medicine man ' .
6,190	98	21	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	one is an anti-viral drug against respiratory infections ; the second is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent derived from a plant used by native tribes in north america and africa for the treatment of infections .
6,191	98	22	0	what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?	conte claimed that by using traditional medicines , shaman 's 'hit rate ' - the number of times screening finds a compound with activity against a certain target - is 'one in two extracts versus the mass screening process in large pharmaceutical companies which is one in thousands ' .
42,449	990	0	1	what is australia 's national blossom ?	or better yet , if it 's a little bit of color that 's needed inside the stadium , dispense with the artwork altogether and plant boxes of wattle blossoms , the national flower of australia .
42,450	990	1	0	what is australia 's national blossom ?	the simi valley high product will sing the national anthem as you 've never quite heard it before with his punk band pulley , then trot out from the bullpen in the bottom of the ninth with one -out , one -on and a one -run lead .
42,451	991	0	1	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the 1999 mustang sports edgier lines in keeping with the original 1964 mustang and with ford 's new edge design , which uses sharp edges to create surface tension on the metal .
42,452	991	1	1	when was the first ford mustang made ?	car-smart-mustang -lrb- undated -rrb- _ like all long-lasting models , the ford mustang that was introduced in 1964 has had its highs and lows , including some bloated and toothless models in the early '70s that were followed by the silly pinto -based mustang ii .
42,453	991	2	1	when was the first ford mustang made ?	muscle-cars -lrb- schenectady , n.y. -rrb- _ the heyday of muscle cars began about the time the country fell in love with the ford mustang , introduced april 17 , 1964 , at the new york world 's fair .
42,454	991	3	1	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the heyday of these magnificent machines began about the time the country fell in love with the ford mustang , introduced april 17 , 1964 , at the new york world 's fair .
42,455	991	4	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	for its 35th anniversary , the ford mustang has received a makeover that includes hints of the original pony car .
42,456	991	5	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the mustang emblem on the grille is also reminiscent of the original : the galloping pony is circled by a chrome corral .
42,457	991	6	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the new mustang has more horsepower in both the v6 and v8 engines .
42,458	991	7	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	an optional all-speed traction control system will be offered to help the rear-drive mustang trot through the snow .
42,459	991	8	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the new mustang goes on sale in december ; a high-performance cobra version follows in february .
42,460	991	9	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	phoenix - ford stylists decided to play the retro card with the -lrb- mostly -rrb- new 1999 mustang , celebrating the 35th anniversary of the original pony car with a nod to the past .
42,461	991	10	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	meanwhile , ford engineers were refining this old-style muscle car into a thoroughly modern automobile , making it tighter , quicker and generally more fun to be with .
42,462	991	11	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	why , it was only yesterday that my buddies and i were careening around the neighborhood in a slightly used '66 mustang convertible complete with a 289 v-8 and the coveted pony interior .
42,463	991	12	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	maybe it was a long time ago that ford took the chassis of its compact falcon and created a new kind of funmobile .
42,464	991	13	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	quickly , mustang also became ford 's imagemaker and perennial performance machine .
42,465	991	14	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	and , aside from a mid-'70s detour as the crumby , downsized mustang ii , it has stayed the course .
42,466	991	15	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	still , it 's a new look for mustang , the beveled edges , rounded flanks and glowering headlights bringing it crisply up to date .
42,467	991	16	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	and compared with the archaic suspension and handling of our '66 model , the new mustang brings the breed into focus as a car that performs as good as it looks .
42,468	991	17	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	if you 're not in the power game , mustang also comes with an upgraded 3.8-liter v-6 that 's been kicked up 40 horsepower to 190 .
42,469	991	18	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the enhanced v-8 brings mustang gt 's acceleration more into line with archrival chevrolet camaro z-28 .
42,470	991	19	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the extra oomph is noticeable especially from a standstill , when the mustang hunkers down and takes off with a hot-rod roar .
42,471	991	20	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	if you require more , there 's the limited-edition mustang svt , with 320 horsepower stuffed under the hood , thanks to reworked cylinder heads with a total of 32 valves instead of 16 , and some intake- and exhaust-system redesign .
42,472	991	21	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the engine 's the same as the svt , but the cobra will boast mustang 's first-ever independent rear suspension for better handling and overall finesse .
42,473	991	22	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	as it is , the mustang gt 's handling feels more supple and better controlled than last year 's .
42,474	991	23	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	in curves and quick maneuvers , the mustang remains poised and controllable , feeling nicely balanced .
42,475	991	24	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	a quick run along a twisting desert road was a romp , though in some tight turns at speed , the mustang tends to feel heavy .
42,476	991	25	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	shakes , rattles and heaves are a lot less noticeable in the new mustang than in any of its predecessors .
42,477	991	26	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	passengers in the rear need to be considerably smaller than adult scale _ a standard complaint with mustang convertibles .
42,478	991	27	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the trunk is small and shallow , another mustang tradition .
42,479	991	28	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	the '99 mustang is well-priced across the board , with v-6 coupes starting at just over $ 16,000 and lavishly equipped gt convertibles like our tester just over $ 27,000 .
42,480	991	29	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	ford mustang gt convertible - vehicle type : four -passenger , two-door convertible , rear-wheel drive .
42,481	991	30	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	about- cars -mustang -lrb- undated -rrb- _ the new suspension in the ford mustang cobras is a watershed , giving the car newfound sureness and putting it within range of european automobiles _ in road manners , if not in overall sophistication .
42,482	991	31	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	but the mustang 's recent resurgence is due , in part , to its return to its roots .
42,483	991	32	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	ford restyled the car to celebrate this year 's anniversary , reviving touches from the best models of the past .
42,484	991	33	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	and almost nothing is quite like the 2000 mustang gt convertible to take on just such a drive .
42,485	991	34	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	with all the retro-look cars that have come on the market lately , such as the plymouth prowler , chrysler pt cruiser and volkswagen new beetle , nothing is quite as authentic for nostalgia 's sake as the current mustang .
42,486	991	35	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	it has always been , and i hope always will continue to be , a throwback to the late '60s , when muscle cars were king of the road , and the mustang led the pack .
42,487	991	36	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	granted , at middle age i felt a bit silly sitting down behind the wheel of a zinc -yellow mustang gt with boy-racer black stripes and the big `` gt '' letters on the hood .
42,488	991	37	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	it will as long as those roads are n't wet ; if they get wet , though , it 's time to park the mustang .
42,489	991	38	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	but wait : for 2000 , ford finally has added traction control to the mustang , something that has been needed for years .
42,490	991	39	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	-lrb- the connecticut highway patrol , which has used mustang gts as pursuit vehicles for years , has had a policy of keeping those vehicles parked when the roads are wet -rrb- .
42,491	991	40	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	for $ 230 , the traction control can be added to any 2000 mustang , and it works at any speed to help limit wheel spin and stabilize steering on slippery surfaces .
42,492	991	41	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	ford mildly restyled the mustang last year , the first changes since the current generation of the vehicle made its worldwide debut at the texas state fair in dallas in fall 1993 .
42,493	991	42	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	it would have been nice to have the option to shift the automatic transmission manually like the feature that some other cars with automatics offer , but clutchless manual shifting was n't available on the mustang .
42,494	991	43	0	when was the first ford mustang made ?	despite its retro look and feel , the mustang has lots of modern features besides the traction control and antilock brakes .
42,495	992	0	1	who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?	andrew barnes , chief executive of times publishing , parent of the st. petersburg times , said in a dec. 26 letter in the newspaper that the debt to the poynter institute for media studies had been paid .
42,496	992	1	1	who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?	the company that publishes the st. petersburg times has paid off a $ 30 million debt to the poynter institute for media studies , the nonprofit group that owns it , ensuring the durability of one of the country 's most unusual newspaper ownership arrangements .

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who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

`` paul revere 's ride '' was an instant hit -lrb- except with historians -rrb- .

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who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

on the recent anniversary of paul revere 's real ride , what lesson can paul revere 's imaginary ride teach us ?

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what is the `` sunflower state '' ?

even across the sunflower state , the temperature varied from the middle 70s in southeast kansas to the middle 20s in northwest sections on saturday .

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who wrote `` fiddler on the roof ? ''

he did jerry bock and sheldon harnick 's first success , `` fiorello , '' as well as their biggest , `` fiddler on the roof . ''

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how old is the universe ?

a team of nasa astronomers says its measurements to pulsating stars suggest that the universe is about 12 billion years old , somewhat younger than earlier estimates .

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how old is the universe ?

a team of cosmic observers has concluded that the universe is about 12 billion years old _ a far more precise date than previous estimates _ and that it is expanding at an accelerating pace that will essentially continue forever .

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how old is the universe ?

freedman , however , does not claim that her team 's number is `` final , '' and agrees that the universe might well turn out to be 13.5 billion years old , depending on what its total mass is .

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how old is the universe ?

a team of scientists led by an astronomer from the carnegie observatories in pasadena , calif. , has completed a survey of 800 stars called cepheid variables , and it indicates that the universe is probably between 12 billion and 13.5 billion years old .

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how old is the universe ?

even if the universe were only 12 billion years old , it would be 2,182 , 612 times older than eusebius thought it was .

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how old is the universe ?

an important team of scientists with extremely good eyesight just figured out that the universe is possibly 12 billion years old .

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how old is the universe ?

before hubble , scientists thought the universe was only about 10 billion years old , which was weird because they knew that certain stars actually were 12 billion years old .

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how old is the universe ?

but the hubble proved that the universe is at least 12 billion years old , so the scientists were lucky there .

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how old is the universe ?

now , the thing that has always bugged me about outer space , the universe and everything is that , if the universe is 12 billion years old , what was there before the universe formed .

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how old is the universe ?

london , march 4 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the universe is about 15 billion years old , a united states research group said after calculating the distance between stars .

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how old is the universe ?

q. how old is the universe , and will it continue to expand or eventually contract back in , like a bungee cord ?

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how old is the universe ?

a. give or take a few minutes , the universe is about 10 billion years old , or 14 billion , or 18 billion , depending on who you talk to .

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how old is the universe ?

since then , other astronomers have used the hubble constant to estimate the age of the universe as anywhere from 10 billion to 20 billion years old .

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how old is the universe ?

sandage has a much different calculation for the hubble constant and argued that the universe could be anywhere between 14 billion and 18 billion years old , depending on its total mass .

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how old is the universe ?

in a report being published friday in the journal science , he concludes that the universe is most probably about 13.4 billion years old , give or take 1.6 billion years .

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how old is the universe ?

old theories that the gravity of the universe would eventually cause it to collapse many billions of years from now _ in what astronomers have termed a `` big crunch '' _ are now widely discarded .

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how old is the universe ?

so how old is the universe ?

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how old is the universe ?

for some reason , this does not sound like a very broad range of numbers , though in fact a universe that is 20 billion years old is twice as old as one that is merely 10 billion years old .

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how old is the universe ?

neither does the fact that , given these new numbers , the universe is only a little more than three times as old as life on earth .

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how old is the universe ?

a guy was invited to some old friends ' home for dinner .

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how old is the universe ?

their child , who seemed to be about a year old , pointed at the photo and said something in baby talk that i could n't understand .

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how old is the universe ?

times have changed department : karen hanauer was on a down escalator at saks fifth avenue when a little girl , about 4 years old , passed by going up .

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how old is the universe ?

was it just a big old empty space , like a strip mall department store just waiting for some cosmic tenant to move in ?

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how old is the universe ?

but since they measure the expansion in kilometers instead of good old american `feet , ` you know it 's serious .

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how old is the universe ?

can that somewhere hold an entire expanding universe ?

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the field was given an enormous boost by taxol , a promising anticancer compound derived from the bark of the pacific yew tree , a conifer found in the remaining virgin forests of the us 's pacific northwest .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

conservationists are worried that in the rush to extract taxol from the bark of the pacific yew tree , remaining stands of the tree will be obliterated .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

however , mcchesney said researchers have now found that taxol can be extracted from the yew 's needles , rather than its bark .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

news that the fda had approved the marketing of taxol , a promising new cancer drug derived from the pacific yew tree , helped shares in bristol-myers advance dollars 3/4 to dollars 68 1/2 .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the us government yesterday approved the use of taxol - a potential cancer fighter derived from the bark of pacific yew trees - for ovarian cancer patients who have not responded to other treatments , reuter reports from washington .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

analysts have predicted sales of taxol , derived from the bark of rare pacific yew trees , of up to dollars 50m -lrb- pounds 33.1m -rrb-

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

taxol is now being tested against ovarian and breast cancers .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the us national cancer institute first discovered taxol in the 1960s but saw its natural products program languish in the 1980s .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the controversy surrounding taxol has underscored the issue of supply .

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what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

bristol-myers has received permission to market taxol to women with ovarian cancer who have failed to respond to chemotherapy .

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taxol is being studied for a number of other cancer uses including breast , lung and head and neck cancers .

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an advisory panel of the us food and drug administration -lrb- fda -rrb- yesterday recommended marketing approval for the drug taxol to treat ovarian cancer which does not respond to standard treatment , writes karen zagor in new york .

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morphine is derived from opium , for example , and penicillin is a fungal metabolite .

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james mcchesney , director of the research institute for pharmaceutical sciences at the university of mississippi estimates the compound generates as much as dollars 300m a year in sales in europe .

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the drug is an analog of campotothecin , a compound extracted from trees in china and india .

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the company is studying analogs of the compound and it is searching for new plant medicines as part of a research consortium with the university of illinois in chicago , one of the leading academic centres involved in medicinal plants .

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another promising product is artemisinin , an antimalarial drug originally derived from a plant found in china and south-east asia , according to mcchesney .

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'the excitement is that the compound is effective for drug -resistant malaria and is practically a miraculous drug for cerebral malaria , a serious form of the disease , ' he said .

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artemesia annua , from which the compound is derived , is a 'worldwide naturalised weed , ' said mcchesney .

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'by using traditional knowledge there is greater likelihood of yielding an active compound or a pharmaceutical , ' said lisa conte , shaman 's president .

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shaman is the traditional name for 'medicine man ' .

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one is an anti-viral drug against respiratory infections ; the second is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent derived from a plant used by native tribes in north america and africa for the treatment of infections .

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conte claimed that by using traditional medicines , shaman 's 'hit rate ' - the number of times screening finds a compound with activity against a certain target - is 'one in two extracts versus the mass screening process in large pharmaceutical companies which is one in thousands ' .

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or better yet , if it 's a little bit of color that 's needed inside the stadium , dispense with the artwork altogether and plant boxes of wattle blossoms , the national flower of australia .

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the simi valley high product will sing the national anthem as you 've never quite heard it before with his punk band pulley , then trot out from the bullpen in the bottom of the ninth with one -out , one -on and a one -run lead .

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