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...blood vessel. For instance, researchers at Ixsys, a biotech company in San Diego, have developed an artificial antibody that dissolves the biochemical glue that holds a tumor's capillaries together. Indeed, one of the patients in their safety study exceeded all expectations when two of the tumors in his abdomen shrank 70%. "I've been on the drug now for over a year," says Barry Riccio, a college professor from Illinois who is suffering from a rare sarcoma. "I have more energy than I did just nine months ago, and I've gained back a lot of weight...
...Pilates, a German boxer, at the turn of the century. A sickly child, he obsessed about the perfect body, something to combine the physique of the ancient Greeks with the meditative strength of the East. The result was 500 exercises requiring intense concentration and centered mainly on a strong abdomen, as well as deep stretching. "This is your powerhouse," says Pilates master teacher Romana Kryzanowska, 75, her hand on her stomach. "With that you can do this": her right leg scissors into a kick that would make a Rockette cry, with her poodle Bijoux nestled nonchalantly in her left...
...retrace her steps, and she dragged the wounded student out of the line of fire. Brittheny Varner, 11, was hit as she tugged at the sweatshirt of her best friend, another girl named Whitney. The bullet passed through Brittheny's back, killing her, and wounded Whitney Irving in the abdomen. English teacher Shannon Wright, 32, stepped forward to shield one of her sixth-graders, saving the girl and losing her own life. "This guy was aiming at Emma [Pittman]," said Amber Vanoven, 11. "He was fixing to shoot her and Mrs. Wright moved in front of her. She got shot...
...students pursued the prostitutes only to run into their pimps--three men armed with knives who stabbed Thomas Lincoln' 77 in the abdomen and, after a chase, stabbed Andrew Puopolo ' 77 in the heart and lungs...
...even Hauser was prepared for what was happening in Bobbi's abdomen. There on the sonogram, taken six weeks into the pregnancy, were not two or three fetuses, not five or six, but seven budding human forms, each in its own tiny sac of amniotic fluid. Even now, half a year later, she can't fully describe how she felt. "The words shock and disbelief come to mind," she says. "For a good length of time, I couldn't wrap my mind around this...