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Among other accomplishments, Bechis has published a new method for factoring polynomials in a national mathematics journal. He plays Baroque flute, sings in the gospel choir and has studied marine biology in Australia and Hawaii...
...widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans: heart disease and stroke. That was the implication of a remarkable report published last week in the journal Circulation by a team of researchers from Dr. Judah Folkman's laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Boston...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (4/8/99); Journal of the American Medical Association (4/7/99). Bad News: American Journal of Preventive Medicine (4/99); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (4/99...
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Foot Locker, the Bond Buyer, the Washington Times, the Team Marketing Report
Kids who smoke like to think that they're immortal--or at least that if they stop in time, their lungs will heal. But a report in last week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests early smoking may trigger changes in DNA that put young smokers at higher risk for cancer even if they later quit. Researchers studying lung-cancer patients found that those with the worst genetic damage were not those who smoked longest but those who started youngest. What's more, the earlier they started, the more severe the damage...