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...know anything about cancer are exceedingly cautious about using the C word. That's partly because it too easily raises false hopes and partly because doctors are increasingly convinced that a cure is not the only way to beat cancer. Instead, experts believe, by throwing a series of monkey wrenches into the cancer cell's machinery, the new therapies could transform cancer from an intractable, frequently lethal illness to a chronic but manageable one akin to diabetes and high blood pressure. Says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering: "I don't think we're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope For Cancer | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...afraid?very afraid. It strikes when residents are seeking relief from the brutal summer heat by bedding down on their roofs between midnight and 4 a.m. It scratches its victims and bounds out of sight into the darkness. Some say it's a monster with a black monkey face and human legs, possibly with coil springs on its feet. Or a robot invader with steel claws. Just possibly, the marauder is a half-human spy in an iron mask from neighboring Pakistan sent to destabilize the Indian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey Man Attack! | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Monkey Man, as he's been crowned by an excited local press, is unlikely to be from Pakistan, but he's sure done a good job at destabilization. Fear and loathing has gripped an entire section of New Delhi. Three unfortunates died fleeing their homes when screams from neighbors announced that the monster was nearby. One, a woman five-months pregnant, tripped in the dark and fell down the stairs from her rooftop terrace. Two men leapt off buildings. All died in the hospital from their injuries. Several others have been injured in panicked stampedes and more than 100 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey Man Attack! | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...foreign planet, only to be captured by highly evolved intelligent apes (led by a costumed Michael Clarke Duncan) that run their society like a violent, fascist dictatorship and have the helmets to match. Humans are marginalized and degraded as captive slaves, a treatment that inspires Wahlberg to escape from monkey prison and lead a human...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, James Crawford, Yan Fang, Andrew D. Goulet, and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summer Movie Preview | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Phil Spector and The Ecstatic Moment Monkey on My Back: My Life with the King (Kong, That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Joey | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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