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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center's research takes a novel approach to treating the disease by seeking to transplant functional islet cells into patients without immunosuppressants. While these drugs prevent side effects such as rejection of the transplant, they can also seriously infringe upon the patients' everyday activities...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Diabetes Center Renews Commitment to Finding a Cure | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...hope to begin clinical trials of islet transplantation at Harvard before 2000 and to initiate trials of novel strategies to make it work within two years after that," he says. "But these will be trials--if we knew they would work, we wouldn't need a $20-million-dollar center and a commitment for at least five years to work on the problem at Harvard by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Diabetes Center Renews Commitment to Finding a Cure | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

Grace is the only one of the principals who isn't allowed to speak in her own voice. She's watched and observed but never fully pried open. It seems like an arbitrary choice at first, but as the novel progresses, it makes sense: Schwartz is putting a kind of disciplined distance between himself and a mourning middle-aged mother whose anguish may be too raw and primal for a male writer to understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Common Points of Pain | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, just released his latest novel, Filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irvine Welsh | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...novel Dreams of My Russian Summers, the author told lively, fascinating tales of his hero's Siberian grandmother, then wavered into lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Once Upon the River Love | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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