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Frightening anecdotes abound. Kali Korn, 41, of Los Angeles came down with scleroderma last year, a decade after she had silicone implants inserted for cosmetic reasons. The skin has so constricted around her fingers that she is virtually unable to move them. Doctors removed the implants in March, and she now says, "I feel much better. I wish I had realized 10 years ago that how I looked was fine...
...think it is really an outrage that Saddam Hussein can bomb a country that's totally unrelated to the invasion of Kuwait and can seemingly get away with it in the eyes of the world," said Lisa M. Korn '93. "People need to stand up to this unjustified act."CrimsonGregory Engel...
...emergence of a distinct female style has hardly transformed workplaces into cozy dens of peace and goodwill. For one thing, not many women have arrived at positions that are truly high enough to influence a corporate culture. Says Lester Korn, chairman of the executive-recruiting firm Korn/ Ferry International: "Most successful women have adapted to the fact that it's a male world. They have not, by and large, changed the way that business is done...
...chemicals into leukemic mice, hoping to find chemotherapies that would help solve the riddles of cancer. All that frustrating work has produced only 36 licensed drugs. Most of them, while dramatically effective against leukemia, have shown only modest value in other forms of cancer. "Maybe," says David Korn, chairman of the National Cancer Institute's advisory board, "we've been using the wrong system as the screening device...
...mouse screens were better in that respect. In any case, new agents discovered by the automated screening may require years of additional testing in the lab -- and then on animals -- before any newly discovered therapies can be tried on human cancer patients. "All it will take," says NCI adviser Korn, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, "is one smashing winner. Then everyone will say it was worth...