Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cold Storage, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Ribman's Talmudic scholar is an old, self-educated Armenian greengrocer, Joseph Parmigian (Martin Balsam). He is dying of cancer in a New York hospital yet he has the juices of a Middle East Falstaff flowing in him, and he knows that none die with honor except those who laugh at fate...
...issue, stated simply, is whether that genie is good or evil. Proponents of this research in DNA-the master molecule of life-are convinced that it can help point the way toward a new promised land-of understanding and perhaps curing cancer and such inherited diseases as diabetes and hemophilia; of inexpensive new vaccines; of plants that draw their nitrogen directly from the air rather than from costly fertilizers; of a vastly improved knowledge of the genetics of all plants and animals, including eventually even humans (TIME special section, April...
...deoxyribonucleic acid) molecule-has labeled the critics "kooks," "shits" and "incompetents." One of his targets is fellow Nobel Laureate George Wald, who has supported efforts to ban recombinant DNA research at Harvard and M.I.T. Wald contends that instead of trying to find the roots of cancer, for example, through genetic research, society can fight the disease more effectively by taking carcinogens out of the environment...
...results from a Canadian study linking the sugar substitute with bladder cancer in rats. The Delaney Amendment, which prohibits the addition of any substance to food if studies show the substance to cause cancer in human or animals, requires the bans...
Died. Diana Hyland, 41, versatile, blonde character actress who most recently played Joan Braden, energetic wife of Washington Columnist Tom Braden and mother of their attractive brood, in ABC's Eight Is Enough; of cancer; in Los Angeles...