Word: parkinsonism
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DIED. ANNALEE FADIMAN, 85, convention-defying author and World War II correspondent for TIME; a suicide, after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there. The wife of the late writer and critic Clifton Fadiman, she co-wrote with Theodore H. White the 1946 best seller Thunder Out of China...
...spectator. "Thrilla in Manila," he says, struggling to speak, in a low, gravelly whisper. "These are the people." He often draws these pictures, re-creating his glorious fights. Making the dots keeps him busy for hours and helps maintain his motor skills, which have been diminished by the Parkinson's he has suffered from for two decades. But his mind and sense of humor remain sharp. While tap-tap-tapping away with his black marker, he talks about Ali, the movie about his life opening Dec. 25, with Will Smith in the title role...
Taken from embryos only days old, stem cells are nature's blank slates, capable of developing into any one of the more than 200 cell types found in the human body. Scientists hope these cells may someday be used to treat a range of degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes. But using human embryos for research poses ethical problems, and until last year federal funding for such work was blocked. After much soul searching, President Bush decided last summer to allow federal grants for research that used only the 60 or so stem-cell lines that have...
...Parkinson's is the disease most likely to be cured by stem-cell research, which is enmeshed in controversy. As I wrote in TIME a few months ago, you can't really criticize people whose reason for opposing research that uses embryos is that they truly believe embryos are fully human beings. But you can criticize politicians who try to escape this yes-or-no dilemma with calls for compromise or delay or prestigious panels to study the situation and report back in a few months. Can't they hear that sound of clocks ticking? Tempus fugit, assholes...
...discovered since Sept. 11, the news is a lot more interesting when your life may depend on it. So that's another little plus of having Parkinson's disease. I don't delude myself that the pluses add up to equal the minuses. Though I may give that...