It’s possible that some microbes don’t just take up residence in tumors but help them grow. They may cloak the tumor from the immune system, neutralize drugs or help tumors spread through the body.

If a U.S. presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes, that's the ball game.

The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.

Had he just finished running a dozen miles at full speed, he would have felt precisely as he did just now: exhausted, dry-mouthed, and also wholly awake, thrummingly alive, his every vein invigorated by a fresh current of rushing blood.