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Richard Wright, the Pink Floyd keyboardist who died of cancer at age 65, didn't play many solos or sing lead on anything you're likely to remember. He had just two moments to himself in the songwriting sun: the echo-heavy ballad Us and Them and the wordless The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd's sad epic Dark Side of the Moon. Shy, gentle and very private, Wright was proof that not every rock star feels the need to act like one. "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick...
Finding an Answer to Cancer...
...female supporters - including Clinton - to campaign for Obama and argue his case on the airwaves. In Pennsylvania the Obama field operation put together a "Take Your Daughter to Canvass" day; in Florida it was organizing one of Obama's trademark megarallies specifically for women, offering tickets to sororities, breast-cancer organizations, Planned Parenthood, teachers organizations and nurses groups. Meanwhile, both campaigns are spending heavily on reaching these women over the airwaves. According to the New York Times, Oprah is getting more political advertising than any other non-news show, with McCain buying more spots in the past month than Obama...
Ruvkun and his co-recipients found that miRNAs—long regarded as far less versatile players in gene activity—play a significant role in governing growth and development in animals and plants. This discovery could have implications for diseases such as viral infections, heart failure, and cancer, as well as shed light on normal functions like muscle action...
...McCain had to make it clear he'd protect those programs from cuts. He made a similar exception during his anti-poverty tour in April, when he visited an African-American community in Alabama that got ferry service through an earmark. He then met a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer who was being treated through a clinical trial funded by an earmark; he assured her that program was worthwhile too. "It's the process I object to," McCain explained...