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GENE THERAPY WITH A TWIST Scientists have used a genetically modified cold virus, Onyx-015, to battle head and neck cancer. While traditional gene therapy aims to replace defective genes, Onyx-015 trades on the genetic difference between cancerous and normal cells to hunt and kill only the cancer. In a study, 63% of 30 patients who received Onyx-015 along with chemotherapy saw their tumors shrink by at least half. After five months, none of the tumors had grown back. Doctors hope that Onyx-015 will also prove effective against ovarian, pancreatic and other aggressive cancers...
INSET: Photograph for TIME by Aaron Rapoport -- Onyx...
...Onyx, House of Pain and Kriss Kross (I won't even get into the whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
Among the more creative schemes: Beach had the government procure a refurbished World War II PT boat and dock it on the Potomac at the Washington Navy Yard. Eisenhower would be rushed by limousine -- one of two onyx-black Cadillacs with a tank engine under the hood -- to a prearranged point on the river, where the PT boat would be waiting. After sailing safely past the blast zone, the President would be met by Secret Service agents and driven to one of three underground command posts. The PT boat, as well as an ultrasensitive underground command post at his Maryland...
Cover: Photograph for TIME by Michael Llewellyn-Onyx...