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...boardroom at DC Comics, a life-size statue of Clark Kent sits in a chair reading the Daily Planet. Lately the talk is probably making him a little nervous. Superman is still the company's flagship icon, but Batman outsells him, and the original superhero hasn't starred in a movie for 17 years. But help may be on the way. DC is installing new creative talent on all three main monthly Superman comics, starting with the June issues. "Periodically there's just a moment that happens when a new generation of talent steps in, and you get some fresh...
...taking place. But they suspect that in a couple of weeks or a couple of months, they will be sent back to finish the job. "What you saw today is only 10% of what they would have got if we had gone into the city," says Staff Sergeant Naaman Clark. "But this is an election year, and politics got in the way. We're going to be here for a long time...
...night when your daughter spikes a 101° fever. You drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology. "For a long time in the pediatric community, [the attitude was] if you have a major chromosomal abnormality, you're going to not grow well, you're going to be developmentally delayed, you're going to be mentally retarded...
Particular Clark Kents, of course, turn into particular superheroes because of varying talents and inclinations. Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, for example, were both multidegree doctors--she has an M.D. and a Ph.D., he has an M.D. and a master's in public health--when a doctor friend diagnosed progeria in their 21-month-old son Sam, now 7 (the rare disease causes accelerated aging and often leads to death by early adolescence). The next day, Gordon took a leave from her training in pediatric ophthalmology. Within nine months, she created the Progeria Research Foundation to bring attention...
...HUPD detective arrested Clark Caravan, 44, of Somerville, Mass., on three warrants, including one warrant from HUPD for theft of an LCD projector, a warrant from the Northeastern University Police Department and a default warrant from Quincy District Court...