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There were some signs of improvement. Although Harvard beat only Yale at Heps, it was a mild improvement on last year's last-place finish, and the Elis had bested the Crimson earlier in the season at the H-Y-P double-dual meet...
...February 25, 15,000 people rally in Boston to support the "Chicago 7," arrested on charges of conspiring to incite riots in Chicago. The night ends with mild skirmishes between protestors and police...
...summer of dinosaurs and meteors--those old rock-'n'-roll, end-of-the world money machines--an eccentric little ($60 million) film about one mild man reaching the end of his world may not seem to have much going for it. And Carrey's core audience of boys who like to talk through their butts could be a hard sell for a film in which the megamanic star is an actor, for Pete's sake. But The Truman Show is the best kind of risk: make a good movie and see who comes. And Carrey will be waiting for them...
...drug, manufactured by Sugen, appears to slow or arrest tumor growth in about a third of glioblastoma patients, but it's too soon to say how long the benefits will last. Side effects appear to be mild. "We have one patient who's been on it for two years and three months," says Malkin. "His tumor is still there, but it's stable. He's alive; he's at work. For someone with recurrent glioblastoma, that's remarkable...
...Mary has bipolar disorder--most people know it as manic depression--an illness with a raft of possible symptoms, from irritability to hypersexuality. Moore theorizes that "psychosocial stressors" in Mary's life--the most crucial being the news of her father's cancer--tipped a disorder that had been mild and all but unnoticed into depression followed by a nervous breakdown. "I think she was very interested in this boy, and she had often extended relationships with students after school," Moore says. "But by [June 1996], she was overly elated, highly revved up and nearly delusional." Moore notes, "The father...