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Just after intermission, Guthrie was awarded with a "Courage of Conscience" Peace Award, granted by The Life Experience School and Peace Abbey. After the solemn awarding, Guthrie quipped: "I thought I was dead there for a moment...
Graney claims that the paintings of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, as well as the writings of Roshi Jiyu-Kennett of Shasta Abbey, inspired her to choreograph "Faith." Perhaps because of these visual and intellectual sources of inspiration, "Faith" seems more like a procession of portraits and ideas than a display of physical ability. Ultimately, the mood of the piece is so stagnant that Graney's greater message is lost...
...Dimes and the American Cancer Society built the model for patient groups, advocates like Rehnquist are busy shattering it. They are, for a start, less polite about their demands on the medical establishment and more combative in their tactics. "We're becoming nasty, and I love it," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. The new generation of patient advocates has borrowed the medical activism first mastered by the AIDS lobby, in an effort to educate patients, inform physicians, influence politicians and pressure the pharmaceutical industry over everything from development to government approval. They...
...drug industry has also felt the heat from new pressure groups. Abbey Meyers of the National Organization for Rare Disorders is acknowledged as the force behind creation of the Orphan Drug Act. This federal statute provides incentives for companies to develop drugs for rare diseases that might otherwise be overlooked by firms seeking more lucrative markets. Meyers is now back in Washington lobbying for a revision in the law. She wants to close a loophole that has allowed companies to reap windfall profits and leaves the orphan drugs so expensive that a new treatment can be out of the reach...
McCartney stands now over the control board, chewing his fingernails. For three days, he has been fretting about just the right sound for one track, a number reminiscent of Abbey Road. Fans are forever pestering him with questions about the Walrus, Rita the meter maid, Desmond and Molly, and, of course, the secret message on Revolution 9. But McCartney refuses to overanalyze the Beatles' songs. "They're just songs," he says. "We never had a theme on a Beatles album, even Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. We kinda knew we were reflecting the times...