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Brain C. Sullivan, manager of Pearl Art & Craft Supply on 579 Mass. Ave., said he can see both sides of the issue...
...PEARL, Mississippi: Although every crime is planned, if only for a moment, the news that what appeared to be a solo killing spree in Pearl, Mississippi might actually be part of a broader conspiracy has shaken this small town, across the Pearl River from Jackson. Classmates were quick to note that many of the six teenagers, each now held on a $1 million bond, seemed normal enough. One of the six, Justin Sledge, provided some clues with a note from murder suspect Luke Woodham: "I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every...
...thing that is still uncertain is whether the six were serious about their alleged plot, or if it was something they only idly talked about on the banks of the Pearl, never dreaming that one of them might carry out their plans...
Earlier this year, a team of University of Chicago physicians led by Ernest and surgeon Dr. Samir Patel performed a complex operation on Pearl Van Vliet, a retired medical-center receptionist who was suffering from the same condition that had deprived Ernest's father of his sight. That disease is known as age-related macular degeneration, in which the eye's macula, a remarkably sensitive structure in the middle of the retina, gradually loses its ability to distinguish shapes and colors...
...team found that adding fetal RPE cells to laboratory cultures sent white blood cells, which attack transplanted tissue, into overdrive. Curiously, however, adding even greater numbers of RPE cells to the culture appeared to force the white blood cells into a quiescent state, thus lowering the chances of rejection. Pearl Van Vliet's transplant, accordingly, contained a souped-up 250,000 fetal RPE cells...