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...sterile environment, as did David, the famous "Bubble Boy," who died after 12 years inside a sealed plastic enclosure. Andrew, however, has a chance to lead a normal life. In a new test of gene therapy, doctors at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, using blood extracted from his umbilical cord moments after he was born, separated out some white cells and inserted a new gene into them. The altered cells were injected into Andrew's body four days later in what could become part of a remarkable medical milestone: the first attempts to cure a disease by gene therapy...
...tennis, not war. "He did not want to kill Monica Seles," said a police spokesman. "He only wanted to injure her so Steffi Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a 38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded. His 4.5-in. boning knife barely missed Seles' spinal cord, and it put a 1/2- in.-deep cut in the muscles of her upper back. Doctors at a nearby hospital closed the wound and predicted that it would heal quickly. Nevertheless, the wound put her out of the Hamburg tournament -- she was top seed and was leading Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva...
...rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined in cord around my fingers...
...Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists do a bungee-cord ballet). But no artiste is allowed to be a specialist. All must do double duty, as Harlequins or chorus girls, to fit into the precise, giddy scheme devised by director Franco Dragone and his team...
...Ovitz that means continuing to push the boundaries of what a Hollywood talent agency does. On his telephone is a sign that reads, COMMUNICATE! And early each morning, he slips on a high-tech headset, plugs the extralong cord into that phone and spends the next 12 hours working his relationships, cajoling, brokering, turning that exhortation into new ways of making money...