Word: danae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors studying a common type of tumor at the Harvard-affiliated Dana Farber Cancer Institute have developed a treatment that has yielded encouraging preliminary results, according to reports published in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
...patients treated in the Dana Farber study, 65 percent are now disease-free, with several of them out of treatment for as long as five years. The mortality rate in the study was less than 5 percent, far lower than the approximately 75 percent death rate of other types of treatment, said Dr. Lee M. Nadler, one of the 12 researchers...
Playwrights Horizons has become probably New York's foremost showcase for new stage writing. Its second, smaller space is now home to Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal...
...division, Harvard's Jane Fogg used two different crews, Dana Barron and Tami Harvey, to tally 43 points--third behind Brown (42 points) and Dartmouth...
...past 17 years, the Jimmy Fund's annual Evening of Champions has gone from being pure entertainment to one of the more lucrative fundraising events on campus. Originally designed to amuse children with cancer at the Children's Hospital, this year it raised $100,000 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute by attracting top amateur skaters such as Brian Boitano and Tiffany Chin, says Paul Kienzle '87, co-chairman of the 1986 Evening of Champions...