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Before she knew it, Willig had found a literary agent through a friend, and inked a book deal with Dutton. Now, hard at work on The Masque of the Black Tulip—in which two supporting characters from Carnation engage in a little romantic derring-do of their own—her mind is on the future...
...labs like this around the world, bad bugs are undergoing the ultimate rehabilitation, being transformed from life-threatening viruses and bacteria into lifesaving therapeutic agents. Using the tools of molecular biology, researchers like Russell are disguising and manipulating common microbes so that they will do good instead of harm. After all, nothing is better than a virus at evading the body's immune defenses and breaking into a cell. And nothing is better than a bacterium at producing deadly toxins that destroy a cell from the inside. "We can make a good anticancer agent," says Russell, "by harnessing and channeling...
...favorite place to go," says David Bermudes, director of microbiology at Vion. With a simple change in the bacterium's genome, the Vion team and Yale scientists were able to give salmonella the ability to convert a powerful compound found naturally in the body into a toxic chemotherapy agent. In a small pilot study conducted at the Mary Crowley Medical Research Center in Dallas, 2 of 3 patients given the modified salmonella showed signs that the chemotherapy agent was active. "It's a proof of principle that the strategy is working," says Bermudes. While his team seeks a partner...
...controversy that now surrounds DeLay, who's facing questions about his fund raising and ties to lobbyists. The majority leader and seven other House members accepted lavish trips to South Korea from KORUSEC that may have been improper under House rules because the organization had registered as a "foreign agent." The lawmakers say they were not aware that the group was considered a foreign agent, and the group says it may have registered by mistake and is checking to see if it should be removed from the Justice Department list...
...Lindberghs, whose legal adviser is Col. Henry Breckinridge, Wilsonian Assistant Secretary of War, descended suddenly and startlingly to the underworld for assistance. The designation by the nation's hero and the daughter of a onetime Ambassador, of Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, two Manhattan 'leggers, to be their accredited agents was widely viewed as a desperate admission that the nation's police system had knuckled under to the nation's criminals. It was at this point that prominent gangsters began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either public sympathy or publicity. Owney Madden of the Manhattan beerage offered...