"A Treatment's Tantalizing Promise" ("Genetic Gamble" series, front page, July 9) shows the potential of developing a tailored approach to treating patients with cancer.
As your three-part series about cancer highlights, it is genes that drive cancer, not the tissue or the organ where the cancer originates ("Genetic Gamble" series, July 8 to 10).
At the time he had begun working on his A Man in a Room, Gambling, a series of 10 five-minute radio vignettes in which Munoz, in the guise of an expert, explained the mechanics of a number of card tricks, set to music composed and performed by Gavin Bryars.
To get at gaming addiction, Gentile adapted diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling into a series of questions about video game use.
And because there were no breakthrough hits during the 2010-11 season, the networks seem willing to gamble with some series that seek to woo viewers with offbeat concepts.
TPT partnered with Procter and Gamble for a series of videos and written letters from mothers of Winter Olympians to their children during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
They gambled on a series of high-risk "reforms" and, in frustration, they turned to scripted, "teacher-proof" policies.
Much of the research in this area has asked participants to essentially gamble on a series of independent events, which typically provide a one-off instant reward with no further positive consequences.
Calls for a radical rethink of gambling laws follow a series of cases that fuelled concern about the behaviour of online casinos and bookmakers.
A series of gambling scandals in 2010, in which wrestlers were caught forming illegal betting rings with yakuza gangsters, further lowered the sport's standing, compounded by evidence of match-fixing the following year.
