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That's welcome news to clinicians and patients alike. Traditional cancer treatments--chemotherapy and radiation--are therapeutic blunderbusses; they blast indiscriminately at all fast-growing cells, often destroying healthy tissue along with the tumors. By comparison, the new drugs are smart bombs; they cause minimal collateral damage and trigger relatively few side effects...
GOLDEN OLDIES You might not expect to see an 85-year-old at an 'N Sync concert, but researchers in Italy find that elderly folks with dementia can suddenly develop surprising tastes in music. In one case, a classical-music buff began to enjoy, at full blast, an Italian pop band he had once derided as "mere noise." Explanation? Lesions in the brain may damage areas involved in music perception. Or perhaps dementia simply changes one's attitude toward novelty...
...Situation Report: Investigators are as near as they're ever going to get to proving a Bin Laden connection in the attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole. They've named the mastermind as a Bin Laden lieutenant who escaped Yemen for Afghanistan before the blast. And Osama, by most accounts, is no micromanager - he provides the money, maintains the networks, issues the fatwas (pseudo-religious decrees to attack Americans all over the world, for example) and then lets his military planners and allies take care of the details. Bin Laden is currently hiding out in the mountains...
...terrorist blast ripped the U.S.S. Cole here...
That’s welcome news to clinicians and patients alike. Traditional cancer treatments-chemotherapy and radiation-are therapeutic blunderbusses; they blast indiscriminately at all fast-growing cells, often destroying healthy tissue along with the tumors. By comparison, the new drugs are like smart bombs that cause minimal collateral damage and trigger relatively few side-effects...