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...Born with Leber Congenital Amaurosis, a genetic disease that prevented her eyes from fully developing, Stevens has some vision, though not enough to distinguish the cars as they circle the track...
...patients have a faulty gene that gives them a form of Leber's Congenital Amaurocis, a major cause of congenital blindness. Born with limited sight, the patients are expected to become totally blind as they grow older. They have enough photoreceptor cells, but the cells don't work because one of the genes is a dud. Now Ali is firing functional versions of the faulty gene back into the photoreceptor cells, and the one-time procedure could permanently cure the blindness. Johnson's condition - a faulty RPE65 gene - is incredibly rare. But Ali says the procedure, if it works, could...
...drug. The FDA, which monitors reports of adverse reactions to drugs, sees no worrisome pattern to date. "Even if we got several hundred reports involving suicide and Prozac, we wouldn't be alarmed, given how many people use the drug and the nature of the disease," notes Dr. Paul Leber, director of the FDA's division of neuropharmacological drug products. "Depressed people commit suicide." Nonetheless, the agency is watching closely, and Eli Lilly revised its product literature in May to alert physicians to the suggested association with suicide. "But we emphasize that there is no reason to believe a cause...
Almost more astonishing than the loss of such intelligence was the fact that the news caught so many high government officials by surprise. West German Defense Minister Georg Leber, whose office had prepared the report more than a year ago, lamely admitted that he had not got around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair...
Psychedelic Statement. If this were all, Beatlemania might be dismissed as an ingenious multimedia ripoff. But Producer Steven Leber, 34, who thought the whole thing up, and his partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that...