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Researchers are heartened by their preliminary success with a more complicated regimen, in which inoculations are custom-made from--and for--each patient. Early in 2001, scientists from Stanford University reported some shrinkage of advanced colon or lung tumors in half of a dozen patients. The vaccines they used were made of dendritic cells harvested from the patients themselves and mixed with a protein found on colon and lung tumors. These were then put back into the patients. "Our hope is to make these vaccines more potent and to try them in earlier-stage disease, possibly even using them...
...first weekend of October, the Bush family had revived its custom of having friends come to Camp David. The President was acting goofy and being a cutup, as he often is around old chums. Saturday he disappeared with Condoleezza Rice and issued the order sending bombers to Afghanistan from bases in Missouri and from Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean. On Sunday morning Attorney General John Ashcroft sat at the piano and played a range of Southern spirituals while Hughes, Rice, the President and the First Lady joined in the singing. The President would soon be back at the White...
...Already a folk hero, Reyes became a legend at the 1999 World Championships in Cardiff, Wales. As is his custom, he showered before the tournament and not again until it was over?"so the luck won't wash off," he says?then beat players from England, Germany, Japan, fellow Filipino Francisco ("Django") Bustamante and, in the finals, Taiwan's Hao Ping-chang. Filipinos knew he was good, even great. But now he was world champion, and he was theirs...
...There's another twist. Although she's been billed on other releases outside Japan as "Utada Hikaru," the credits on Blow My Whistle bill her as "Hikaru Utada"?using the Western custom of listing the surname last. Says Hikaru: "I just figured it's a good way to separate my English and Japanese personae." After the interview, she sends a follow-up e-mail that begins, "This is Hikaru Utada. (Or is it Utada Hikaru ... oh, whichever!)" She is still a freshman. She'll work things...
Elsewhere, elders continue to encourage circumcisions because the custom provides an important social and economic role. Families in the Sabaot tribe in Kenya, for instance, receive cows upon the circumcision of their first girl. And alternative ceremonies can cause problems of their own. Julie Maranya, coordinator of a Kenyan anti-fgm group, says that because young girls are being taught sex education as part of their alternative initiation, "they think they are now free to engage in pre-marital sex. That's why we have made many tiny mothers...