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...call 24 hours a day and equipped with hospital pagers, the team was directed and its work edited by Barrett Seaman, our special-projects editor. Nancy Gibbs, the senior editor who conceived the project, staked out the infant intensive-care unit. Adam Cohen, a staff writer, checked out Duke's marketing strategy. Senior writer David Van Biema's beeper alerted him whenever a patient was feared to be dying. Deputy photo editor Rick Boeth marshaled the photographers chronicling the action. Veteran science correspondent Dick Thompson and senior reporter Alice Park "knew what the doctors were talking about, which made them...
...about Wall Street now. And the record is just a poker chip. And these, you know, artists are going willingly into the slaughter." There are, however, a few things she likes. "Most of my favorite artists are black," says Mitchell, who admires James Brown, Etta James and Duke Ellington. "All modern music is black." She also has nothing but praise for Janet Jackson's song Got 'Til It's Gone, an R.-and-B. reworking of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. But she has mostly contempt for alternative rock. "Everybody says Kurt Cobain was a great writer...
Baker is a chaplain, a new one. Chaplains train at DUMC much as doctors do. There are interns like Baker, residents, supervisors and administrators. But while medical interns spend years in painstaking study of death's repertoire of plague, bone break and bodily corruption, the chaplaincy interns are Duke Divinity School students. They learn...
...nurse inserts it into her arm, and tens of millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core of the thing she has struggled with for years. Strauss, 76, is a retired preschool teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., just down the road from Duke. For five years she has battled breast and liver cancer. Chemotherapy gave her two years in remission. The new breast-cancer treatment tamoxifen provided two more. Another year was gained from another antiestrogen drug. Then doctors ran out of approved medications...
That was the point at which some people might have resigned themselves to the thought that it would only be a matter of time. Then last spring one of Strauss's doctors, Kim Lyerly, offered her an experimental therapy being developed at Duke's Gene and Cellular Therapeutics Center, where Lyerly is the clinical director...