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...still in surgery, may forever change the way women are treated for breast cancer. A small group of physicians think that for some patients it may be possible to confine radiation to a small area surrounding the tumor, eliminating the practice of blasting the entire breast. The new "mini" treatments may enable women to receive a full course of radiation - which currently takes six weeks or more - in just a few days or even one sitting. And they may enable more women to avoid a mastectomy...
...predictability of the current escalation testifies to the absence of a strategy on either side capable of stabilizing the situation. Israel's blockades, air strikes, assassinations and mini-invasions of Palestinian-controlled towns has not stopped a steady stream of gunmen and suicide bombers. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will succeed. But reoccupying the West Bank and Gaza urban centers remains exceedingly risky for the Israelis, both politically and militarily, and they're more likely to maintain the current pattern of moving troops in with heavy air- and armored support to do house...
...which cells are coaxed into generating whatever replacement tissues or organs a patient might need. The House of Representatives, however, voted to ban all human-cloning research--including therapeutic cloning--out of concern that it might be the first step down a slippery slope to a world of Mini-Me's. The Senate put off debating the issue until later this year...
...just finished a World Cup season in which he placed third in the final standings, the best American showing in 18 years. Schlopy (pronounced Shlope-y) also heads to Salt Lake City this February with the kind of prodigal-son story that NBC will make into a 30-min. mini-series preceding his 50-sec. runs on the slalom course at Park City. "What I went through," says Schlopy, "isn't just nontraditional. It's never been done before...
...this week, proves that no matter how democratic the rest of the world may get, Hollywood is still a good old-fashioned aristocracy. The leading man is COLIN HANKS, 24, son of Tom. Some entries on Colin's acting resume to date? A part in his dad's TV mini-series Band of Brothers, and in his dad's movie That Thing You Do! The leading lady is SCHUYLER FISK, 19, daughter of Sissy Spacek and director Jack Fisk. She was in her father's film Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will? The lowborn Jack Black provides...