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DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine, opposite leading man Jean-Pierre Léaud, of three of François Truffaut's best-loved films, Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The bittersweet, semiautobiographical films follow the journey of a man through falling in love, marriage and divorce...
DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie, The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; of bone-marrow cancer; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie--which featured songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross--helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff. Its sound track was recently placed on TIME.com's list of 100 best albums in history...
...development. In the past, I did choose darlings, you know, and they all failed. So I've stopped doing that. The only time I engage myself is when I see something getting orphaned within the company--and when I think it's very important, like Gleevec [a $2 billion cancer drug...
...Souza has been given a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation—awarded to five outstanding researchers during the initial years of their first faculty position...
...question, however, is what information. Already the two sides of the abortion wars argue over state laws requiring doctors to warn of a heightened risk of breast cancer linked to abortion, despite something like a medical consensus that this link has not been proven. In this case there is dispute among researchers about when a fetus's nervous system and brain are mature enough to allow for pain, with some saying this occurs around 26 weeks, not the 20 weeks the bill stipulates. (An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested pain was unlikely before 29 weeks...