Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work combines the efforts of three top NIH scientists: Steven Rosenberg, an expert in cancer therapy, and W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese, two master gene manipulators. For several years Rosenberg has been developing a novel cancer treatment using a type of cancer-fighting cell called TILs (tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes). He removes TILs from cancer patients and clones large quantities of the cells in the laboratory. When this army of cells is reinjected into the patients, their tumors can shrink significantly. In one experiment with metastatic melanoma patients, 60% of them benefited from the therapy. But Rosenberg still needs...
This baroque gem might have remained under its layers of dust indefinitely except that 1987 marked the 300th anniversary of Lully's death (of an infection that started after he accidentally stabbed himself in the foot with the cane he was using to conduct his music). The anniversary-loving French authorities decided to join with those in Lully's native Italy to finance a hearing for the man who is considered the virtual inventor of French opera...
...This affair will not be covered up." So promised Pierre Beregovoy, the French Finance Minister, as he announced a criminal probe last week into an insider-trading scandal that is causing major embarrassment to Francois Mitterrand's government. The suspected scheme was uncovered when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission noticed heavy trading in Triangle Industries, a U.S. holding company, in the days prior to the Nov. 21 announcement of the company's takeover by Pechiney S.A., a French metals conglomerate. Estimated profits by insiders who bought early: $10 million...
Tipped off by the SEC, the French Commission on Bourse Operations zeroed in on Mitterrand's friends Max Theret, 76, and Roger-Patrice Pelat, 70, who profited handsomely from purchases of Triangle stock just before the takeover became public. Because the Finance Ministry approved the deal before it was announced, the information could have leaked from the government. That possibility prompted the resignation last month of Beregovoy's chief of staff, Alain Boublil, who has denied any involvement...
...peak and avoid the valleys. I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. But today I'm quite at home wandering those valleys and occasionally climbing a peak." So does he regret anything? "No." An actor's delicious pause. "Well, sure. I'm not a French singer...