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Last year Cell Pathways began tests on children. The first child to be enrolled in the study was Eric Nichols, 11, who had been found to have his father's disease. Other studies are showing that related drugs may be effective against a broad range of cancers, including colon cancer, the No. 2 cause of cancer deaths...
Rivers, who has taught at Center High since 1990, began taking hormones last January, and in May notified school authorities that she was suffering from "gender dysphoria," a medical condition in which a person believes himself or herself to be psychically of the opposite sex. She said she would return to class in the fall dressed as a female, in preparation for a sex-change operation next year. "If you are gay or lesbian, you can make a choice whether to tell people," she says. "I don't have that luxury...
...rest--when I was, in fact, hauling along on an eastbound train--two tin cans and a string would have made a tighter connection. I found it all but useless. I could grab a Web page only if I was sitting at a station; as soon as the train began to move again, the data stream was broken. Bad Seedy Petey...
...Koenig was just a parent, she noticed that the most successful outings she had with her kids were the ones in which she allowed each child to invite a friend. Fourteen years ago, after launching a successful travel agency, she used that knowledge and gave it a twist. She began organizing excursions designed for grandparents and grandchildren. This year she's offering trips to 19 destinations, each with four or five departure dates, ranging from a working ranch in South Dakota to a safari in Kenya...
...Philadelphia, just months after his father told him he was a hero and put him on a plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple organ failure. Doctors immediately began an internal analysis. "I consider this trial over," says Dr. James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy...