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benzene toxicity), where the marrow is repopulated by an emerging population of hyperplastic cells that carry a a heightened risk of progressing to acute leukemia.
It's like putting a filter over a camera lens: Some colors are heightened, but others are completely obscured, and the final result may bear no resemblance to reality.
Marin County, located north of San Francisco, California, is distinguished among urban counties in the United States by its relatively small population (250,000 residents), by a median per-capita income of more than 200% that of the nation [ 1 ] , and by elevated rates of breast cancer that were first reported in the early 1990s [ 2 ] . The media has since pronounced Marin County 'the breast cancer capital of the world' [ 3 ] , and heightened community concern has inspired grassroots and scientific efforts to investigate reasons for the high incidence.
Indeed, it has probably increased due both to cultural contagion--this is the Age of Celebrity in all walks of life--and to the heightened competition among universities for increasingly footloose donor dollars.
Acting FBI Director Pickard told us that in addition to his July 19 conference call, he mentioned the heightened terrorist threat in individual calls with the special agents in charge of field offices during their annual performance review discussions.