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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When tested on diabetic animals, the researchers found the inhibitor to be effective and non-toxic. These results were successful enough to warrant an initial ophthalmologic clinical trial, the results of which were first announced at last month's symposium honoring the 100th birthday of the Joslin Diabetes Center...

Author: By Melissa L. Franke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Enzyme Inhibitor Drug Offers Hope For Diabetes Sufferers | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

During the Civil Rights movement, Lewis served as president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, demonstrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and is the only surviving speaker from the 1965 March on Washington...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Lewis Recounts Civil Rights Movement | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

Lewis' involvement in the Civil Rights movement began in 1958, when he was attending college in Nashville. A student of the non-violent philosophy of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his idol King, Lewis helped start a sit-in campaign to protest segregated restaurant counters that would spread across the entire South...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Lewis Recounts Civil Rights Movement | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...gratuitous, it is still so prevalent that it overshadows the plot and weakens attempted interjections of the story amid the sex. Rice catches herself in a paradox--bringing readers in with the skillful language of her sex scenes and then losing their interest when she uses that writing for non-sexual descriptions. For the most part, sex wins over plot in terms of sheer frequency of occurrence. While it is doubtful that Armand might ever have found its way to the coffee tables of the literary jet-set, Rice further loses whatever respectable audience she might have by drenching...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rice's Lascivious Vampires | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...with Hubbard, she has eyes only for a possible ally of the terrorists. Tony Shalhoub is an Arab-American FBI agent caught in the middle of the debacle, and as someone who has deliberately avoided playing to the Arab mold throughout his career, his appearance lends credence to the non-racist nature of the film...

Author: By Keith D. Desrochers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Under The Siege | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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