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...ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since then, students and faculty at HBS have set out both to increase awareness of the disease and to raise money to fund research for it. There is no known cure for ALS, which is often fatal...
...perfervid expectations drove Ruth to murder, Marilyn to fatal overdose. Metaphorically, both women "die of intimate exposure," to quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily. Indeed, the plot could be synopsized as follows: What if Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) were threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), then visited by Marilyn Monroe, who explains the theory of relativity to its creator, then interrupted by Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), who wants a divorce...
...says Dr. Henry Barnett, professor of neurology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and chief coordinator of the project. "Disappointing is the one single word that describes it best of all." Even worse, the study showed that among patients who underwent the surgery, there were 14% more fatal and nonfatal strokes than among those who did not have the operation. The reasons for this finding are not entirely clear, though some doctors speculate that the increased blood flow resulting from the surgery may cause damaging changes in blood-pressure levels in the brain. Also, any operation, particularly around...
Consider some of the changes this fall. After killing off Bobby Ewing in a car accident last spring, Dallas has resurrected Mark Graison (John Beck), another ex-beau of Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal), who supposedly went down in a fatal plane crash a couple of seasons ago. That other hardy band of TV survivalists, the Carringtons of Dynasty, emerged from last spring's terrorist machine-gun attack with hardly a scratch among them, and are now cloning a new series, Dynasty II: The Colbys. Over at Falcon Crest, Apollonia, the sexy rock singer and protégé of Prince, has joined...
...Jennifer A. Woo ’06, the cause is more personal. When she was nine months old, Woo was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal respiratory disease, Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis, which causes tumors to grow in the larynx and trachea and requires numerous surgeries to treat. For the second straight year, she is raising money for the RRP Foundation...