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These sorts of tightly focused studies are already beginning to make cancer treatment more effective. Last year physicians approached the Maryland biotech company Gene Logic for guidance. They had a patient with esophageal cancer--an especially lethal type--so they wanted to find the best therapy in a hurry. Would radiation be appropriate? What about chemotherapy? And if so, which type? Or perhaps it made sense to go right to one of the new experimental antiangiogenesis medications that cut off a tumor's blood supply...
...cells all the time. Being able to identify them could therefore subject women to needless worry and possibly unnecessary treatment. In addition, it's not always easy to draw the line between normal tissue that happens to be growing a little funny and cells that are destined to become lethal...
That modicum of solemnity could very well be enough to carry Bush through to November with a minimum of angst over this issue. Although at least one scheduled lethal injection - involving one suspect's deathbed insistence that his alleged accomplice is innocent - has the potential to incite Gary Graham-level protest, and the sheer frequency of executions could be exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support...
Texas governor George W. Bush, who has presided unflinchingly over 131 executions during his tenure, is in the national spotlight again this week as the scheduled lethal injection of convicted murderer Gary Graham looms ever closer. Graham, who was found guilty in 1981 of murdering Bobby Gene Lambert, will die Thursday unless a growing number of protesters and peddlers of mounting adverse publicity prevail and Governor Bush is moved to recommend a commutation or reprieve. Graham's imminent death, while following hard on the heels of Ricky McGinn's well-publicized reprieve, could be far more damning to Bush...
...some teeth in the "compassionate" part of conservative. But it is also the best way for Bush to demonstrate that he's smarter than some people think he is by showing that he's not as cocksure as he sometimes appears to be. By putting the brakes on the lethal-injection mill, if only in one instance, Bush shows he can take serious things seriously. Unlike in many other cases Bush has refused to reconsider, where the evidence is shakier, the evidence of guilt in McGinn's case is strong, and the DNA test may not change the outcome...