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re:看到一则新闻,去8挂了一下,找到了这个:...
看到一则新闻,去8挂了一下,找到了这个:(Oct 19, 2010 )
Obama's full remarks, just released by the White House, suggest that to him, this wasn't a routine, quick-to-be-forgotten encounter of the sort that fill a president's week:
The last person I spoke to [at the Science Fair] was a young woman, looked like she was of Chinese heritage; lived in Dallas; 16 years old. When she was a freshman in high school, she studied biology and became interested in life sciences and became interested in cancer research. So she decided during the summer to teach herself chemistry -- (laughter) -- taught herself chemistry, and designed as a science project exploration of the development of a new cancer drug, based on some experimental cancer drugs that are currently being put together that involve injecting the drug and then it's activated by light. And it allows a more localized treatment that isolates the cancer cells -- kills the cancer cells but leaves the healthy cells untouched.
And the problem is clinical trials and treatments have shown that it's okay for skin cancer and other diseases where they're close to the surface, but it's harder to penetrate. Bottom line is she decided she was going to design a new drug that would work better for harder-to-reach cancers -- having taught herself chemistry -- (laughter) -- at 16 years old.
She went on to win the international science competition. And now she and her teacher, her high school science teacher, are being approached by laboratories all across the country who want to collaborate with them in thinking about this new potential breakthrough cancer drug.
So I'm talking to her, pretending like I understand everything that she's saying. (Laughter.) And I'm thinking to myself, think about what this means. You've got the portrait of Lincoln in the State Dining Room looking down over us. You've got an African American President named Barack Obama. You've got a young Chinese American girl, 16 years old, who is designing cancer drugs, having taught herself chemistry in high school. That idea of America is alive and well. But we have to nurture it, and we have to sustain it.
And for all the meanness of our political season and the yelling and nonsense that we see day in and day out on television, that is something that is worth remembering -- -
结论:化学很重要。
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