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Identified by neurobiologist Harald Sontheimer, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chlorotoxin targets glioma cells and blocks their fluid-balancing chloride channels, preventing them from shrinking and then migrating elsewhere in the brain. Sontheimer's group is about to submit a clinical-trial protocol to the FDA. If approved, as many as 30 glioma patients could begin receiving chlorotoxin tagged with radioactive iodine as early as July. If the strategy works, Sontheimer says, "chlorotoxin could become a platform for delivering all sorts of drugs...
...Bike has neither Mustang pizazz nor minivan practicality, but it sure will turn heads at the mall. Designed by an assemblage of talent, including Harald Belker, who gave Hollywood the Batmobile, the two-wheeler is a mountain bike with an ignition on the handlebars. Just turn the key, and it will carry you about 20 miles between charges (at any 110-volt outlet)--unless, that is, you're not too lazy to pedal, in which case it'll take you as far as you want to go. The sticker price...
...good an impression of David Letterman as you'll find outside Saturday Night Live. And this one is way outside. The Dave clone is Harald Schmidt, host of a German late-night talk show that runs four days a week on SAT 1, a channel seen not only in Germany but also in several other European countries from Switzerland to Slovakia. His references to the American talk-show host are sometimes obvious and self-conscious: in one recurring bit, a postman drops off letters and Schmidt greets him, "Oh, look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style...
...poly German host whose RTL Nightshow copied Dave's bits but not his success: it was canceled in 1995 because of low ratings. Schmidt, 40, a former actor who sports steel-rimmed glasses and designer suits, has done a better job of capturing Letterman's deadpan charisma, and The Harald Schmidt Show is now seen by 1 million Germans a night, a sizable 10% share of the viewing audience. His sometimes off-color jokes and frequent ethnic put-downs have earned Schmidt the nickname "Dirty Harry." For his advocates, however, the dirtiest insult is to call Schmidt a Letterman imitator...
...Svein Harald Folleraas, deputy mayor of the southern Norweigen village of Songdalen, who used the power of speech to vanquish his adversary when he was charged by an angry moose...