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...bone cells, grew them in the lab and then injected them into a piece of coral fashioned into the shape of the missing digit. "Coral's got lots of interconnected channels for the bone cells to grow in," says Vacanti. It also degrades as bone replaces it. The patch was implanted back on the thumb a few months ago. "It looks like he's growing good bone," Vacanti reports. "He could get most of his function back...
...face of evil." What else can one say but Yikes! The only thing worse than listening to mawkish European comics lecture about innocence is listening to mawkish $20 million-a-picture American movie stars do the same. We can be grateful, then, that Robin Williams wasn't nominated for Patch Adams. But I don't look forward to Oscar night 2002, when Williams will surely be honored for the American remake of Life Is Beautiful--unless, that is, Billy Crystal beats him to the role...
What Rushmore ultimately amounts to is one exuberantly off-center film. Wes Anderson is supporting men like Max and Blume, big dreamer who thumb their nose at conformity, but he is a disciplined enough filmmaker to not glorify their behavior unlike, say, Patch Adams). The two character have their notable flaws, and Max's big schemes have a tendency to blow up in his face. In fact, by the middle of the film, it appears as if lack of discipline has cost him dearly. However , what Rushmore really needed was a good tightening of the story in order to make...
...Patch Adams...
Princeton, on the other hand, faces the weekend in the midst of its first rocky patch of the season. After a shocking 4-2 upset by Dartmouth back on Jan. 8 and a sweep by Colgate and Cornell this past weekend, the Tigers have fallen out of first place...