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...Woodlands, Texas, died in 1984 at age 12 from severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), the most serious form of the disease. Doctors tried to keep David germ-free by putting a plastic barrier between him and the world. It ultimately proved ineffective, and soon afterward, new treatments, including bone-marrow transplants, came along to make such experiments less urgent. Nonetheless, about half the 50 kids born each year with this type of immune deficiency still die before reaching adulthood...
...featuring Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting the special effects right, but an early screening in January made it clear that reshoots wouldn't be a bad idea. Spoiler website Ain'tItCoolNews slammed the film for "lame action and almost no laughs...
Opponents of embryonic stem-cell research argue that more money should be spent researching adult stem cells. Hidden within bone marrow and organs, these stem cells replace old cells in the body. Scientists have isolated and replicated some, but adult stem cells are not capable of developing into any other cell type...
Unlike the foreigners of 100 years ago, I didn’t come to this country to carve it up like a banquet fish, sucking profits out from between every bone. I don’t live in an idyllic riverside concession graced by elegant European architecture. And I didn’t expect the special treatment that treaty after treaty once guaranteed for nationals of the various early 20th-century imperial powers...
...another dark development in the crisis-ridden first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...