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...Great Gene Hunt. It was an extraordinarily productive year for the genetic engineers racing to unravel the secrets of human DNA. Scientists not only pinpointed genes linked to more than half a dozen major ailments -- including Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, colon cancer, hyperactivity and a type of diabetes -- but also sketched out the first rough map of all human chromosomes. Other researchers explored ways to use this information to replace damaged genes. The first beneficiaries of ''gene therapy'' -- two Ohio girls who have an immune-deficiency disease -- made their public debut after three years of successful treatment...
DIED. JANET MARGOLIN, 50, actress; of ovarian cancer; in Los Angeles. Margolin's uncut emotion and striking brunet beauty were displayed to their greatest effect in her debut film, David and Lisa (1962), a ground-breaking study of disturbed teenagers with Margolin opposite Keir Dullea. In an utterly different vein, she is also remembered as the long-suffering wife of inept criminal Woody Allen in Take the Money...
...help these mothers." She takes a matter-of-fact approach toward HIV/AIDS that still surprises many Swazis. "I think what has worked for us is to have an attitude that it's not a special disease. We talk to a patient like you would if he or she had cancer or is diabetic," she says. "Once you introduce it like that, patients begin to say, 'Oh, yes, my mother is diabetic and takes medication to control...
...whatever is necessary, for as long as it takes, to identify and ruthlessly eliminate the cancer: intensify surveillance, run multi-million-dollar recruitment and information campaigns, tighten immigration and deportation rules, increase penalties across the board - but leave the pillars of Western civilization alone. They survived Hitler and a thousand would-be tyrants before him; trust them to survive the latest wave of murdering nihilists. These principles cannot easily be destroyed from outside, but they can be timidly surrendered, with consequences yet unknown. It's fair to assume politicians believe that they are acting in Australia's best interests...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...