Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...among the coveted demographic of women ages 18 to 34--out of a lineup of low-budget "lifestyle documentaries" that allow viewers to peer into the lives of real people as they experience key rites of passage. Last month's premiere of A Dating Story (you guessed it, real blind dates) grabbed the No. 1 cable ranking in its time slot among younger women--a coup all the more remarkable because TLC has so far done no advertising for daytime, relying entirely on word of mouth...
Moving quicker now I barrelled through the growing downpour, nearly missing a number of completely bundled and dry, but hence blind, glass, classmates headed up Quincy Street As I reached the door of Memorial Hall, my khakis one color in front and another in back, my shirt wet and my backpack soaked through, I distinctly heard a bearded man in the distance call for animals...
...almost crazily happy--partly because of the outpouring of support and affection from friends and family, and partly because I knew I had been to the limit and made it back. Though diminished, I was alive. I had always taken that condition for granted before. I never will again. Blind luck had dealt me a whole new hand. From now on, I wouldn't waste a single card in it. Though, if possible, I wouldn't drive in Australia again either...
...Nichols' company finally began testing FGN-1 on humans. In a trial of 18 patients with FAP, 12 showed substantial improvement. One patient, who was developing about 100 polyps a year, had no polyps at all while on the drug. This led to another, larger double-blind study with one group taking a placebo, the other FGN-1. But midway it was discovered that the recruitment of patients had been mishandled and a year's worth of work was lost. Still, Nichols could see that in a core group of subjects the drug was working as he had hoped...
That's what Sallie Mann, 75, and Bernie Olin, 77, are doing. The two widowed Miamians had a blind date last year, and will be married this November. They met each other's families separately, discussing beforehand the interests and personalities of their eight children and 15 grandchildren. "It took a while, but we kept reviewing and asking questions of each other," says Mann...