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...resounding success. After a Massachusetts machinist lost part of his thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his forearm, placed on a thumb-shaped scaffolding made of coral and implanted on the digit. Now the coral is dissolving, new bone tissue is growing and the patient is able to write, grasp and otherwise carry on with normal activities...
Juanita Jordan must be a very patient woman. Her husband MICHAEL JORDAN lives in Chicago, works for a team in Washington and jets all over the world playing golf and doing business. Now Michael has invited a friend, CHARLES BARKLEY, to stay at the house for a while. Barkley says he's moving into the Jordans' Highland Park, Ill., home so the two former Dream Team-ers can train together, drop weight and determine by the end of June whether they are in any kind of condition to return to the NBA, presumably for the god-awful but Jordan...
...panel also wants to change the criteria by which a drug's success is measured. The group proposed that with the newer, better-targeted medications, success should be determined not by whether a tumor shrinks in size but by whether it can be confined, or by how long a patient can put off chemotherapy...
What kids really need is parents and other adults who pay attention. A study that finds only a mother can provide good child care is inaccurate. Is a short-tempered mother better than a patient caregiver? Is an uninterested mother better than an involved father or grandparent? What nonsense! Mothers work for the same reason that fathers do: to earn a living to support their families. Reading of studies that sound Chicken Little alarms about the effects of day care only creates an additional burden on those of us who are trying to do the best...
...certainly are acting like campaign opponents. The Arizona Senator votes with Democrats on a number of issues and practically every Democratic senator running for President has gotten him to co-sponsor a pet bill. Bush, for his part, keeps trying to preempt McCain - for example, endorsing a rival patient's bill of rights instead of the one the Senator is co-sponsoring. Senate Democrats have discussed among themselves the possibility of McCain switching sides, though no one has yet proffered a serious invitation...