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...hint of strain. Her interviews on Today (the top-rated TV morning show for the past nine years) often set the news agenda for the day, and her hairstyles get picked apart over the water cooler. The unique bond she has with viewers made her campaign against colon cancer an unprecedented success. One look at Couric's televised colonoscopy and thousands were moved to do the same; colon-cancer screenings have risen 20% nationwide (and untold lives saved) in what researchers call the Couric effect...
...love." Today Lander is leading the effort to use the new genetic tools to find treatments for ancient human diseases. At the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which he founded and directs, he is bringing together M.I.T. engineers who can navigate the genetic code and Harvard doctors who understand cancer, infectious diseases and psychiatric illness. It's an enormous challenge--just Lander's size. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...risk. Ridker has shown that statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs, work as anti-inflammatory agents as well, hitting heart disease with a one-two punch. Even more exciting are new trials showing that the inflammatory response may play a role in other conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease and cancer. After decades undercover, inflammation's role may finally be out in the open. --By Alice Park
...prepares to pursue his sixth consecutive Tour de France title, Lance Armstrong is once again a man in a hurry, which befits a man who has been rushing through life-altering crises and changes. He beat advanced cancer at age 26 and won his first Tour two years later. He got married, had three kids and was rich and famous by age 30. Now Armstrong, at 32, is divorced and living with rock star Sheryl Crow. If he wins the Tour again this summer, he will establish a new standard for the sport. Throw in an Olympic gold in August...
...wrote the song Walk On to honor this amazing woman who put family second to country, who for her convictions made an unbearable choice--not to see her sons grow and not to be with her husband as he lost his life to a long and painful cancer. Suu Kyi, with an idea too big for any jail and a spirit too strong for any army, changes our view--as only real heroes can--of what we believe to be possible. The jury is still out on whether we deserve the faith...