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...front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about--on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives--was the report that a combination of two new drugs could, as the Times put it, "cure cancer in two years...
...matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors' phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Investors scrambled to buy a piece of the action, turning the shares of a little company called EntreMed into the most volatile stock on Wall Street. Cancer scientists raced to the phones and fax lines to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines and perpetuating the second major medical media frenzy in as many weeks. It was Viagra all over again, without the jokes...
...streaked-by at Primal Scream, it remains one of the few collective events we have at Harvard that is clearly part of a college experience, only in that it is something that can only happen while we are here and while we are young. In a desperate wish to cure the student population of our collective fear of how quickly our years here are passing by, I encourage those of you graduating and entering into the world of work to change that. Start Primal Screams in your offices and law firms, in your graduate schools and your laboratories. Send...
...courts are far from perfect, says John Rabun of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But they're not as bad as Faye claims. And turning children into fugitives, ripping them away from friends and family and home, can be "a cure worse than the ailment." In several of Faye's cases, mothers have been found, prosecuted and jailed, creating horrible new problems for the children...
...from the front page by a rather timid feature piece with a different byline. It opened by recounting the frustrations of a desperate patient. By Tuesday afternoon, Entremed's stock had faded another six points to under 45. Just 48 hours after it was first floated, a cancer cure is not much closer to reality -- unless, of course, you're a mouse...