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...other song, "Turn Back Time," was originally recorded by the Danish group Aqua. In contrast to the group's bubble gum tune "Barbie Girl," Rhone said her rendition of "Turn Back Time" is "serious" and "pretty...
Ever since he was a boy poring over issues of Look magazine with ads for shiny Buicks and Chryslers, ever since American G.I.s camped out in his childhood home in South Wales, providing chewing gum during the austere war years, the actor had dreamed of the U.S. The movies, he now knew, would be his ticket there; as an adult, as an actor, he had been influenced less by the titans of the British theater than by the naturalistic style of Marlon Brando and James Dean. Did he want to be in a film...
...DISEASE Scientists began safety testing the first drug designed to tackle the root cause rather than the symptoms of this brain-addling disease. Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's were given a gamma secretase inhibitor, a compound that blocks the formation of the sticky plaques that gum up the brain's neural connections. So far, the drug seems to have been well tolerated...
...proteins that resemble the human immune system's own antibodies but that bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York City- based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known as a growth factor from fitting into a slot on the surface of the cancer cell and signaling it to reproduce...
...DISEASE Scientists began safety testing the first drug designed to tackle the root cause rather than the symptoms of this brain-addling disease. Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's were given a gamma secretase inhibitor, a compound that blocks the formation of the sticky plaques that gum up the brain's neural connections. So far, the drug seems to have been well tolerated...