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...famine. They started out as horse traders. Today, between 20,000 and 100,000 English, Scottish and Irish Travelers (nobody knows the actual number) live in groups, mostly in the South. They are reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly by overcharging for shoddy home-repair jobs. Others insist the Travelers are hard workers and have no more lawbreakers than any other community...
While the current drugs available to treat VOD can cause severe bleeding, defibrotide—a single-stranded piece of DNA—can repair blood vessel damage on the surface of the liver without harsh side effects, according to the research team...
...themselves to the world, and America in particular because the American public’s image of these dictators is not at all insignificant. This is a fact attested to by the government of Saudi Arabia, which recently hired Qorvis Communications for $200,000 a month to try to repair damage done to the Saudi image by the Sept. 11 hijacking, as William Safire wrote in his Sept. 12 column. Saudi Arabia realizes the importance of molding a good public image, and if it works for them, then the world’s next generation of dictators will take notice...
...discovery not only suggests a biological method to repair dental problems, but also points to the existence of dental stem cells which could be manipulated to grow into many forms of dental tissue, said John D. Bartlett, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School who worked on the research team...
Remarkable as Christopher Reeve's rehabilitation has been, doctors know that physical therapy can go only so far. To cure paralysis, they will have to find a way to repair or replace damaged spinal-cord nerves. Most of the research to date has been conducted on laboratory animals, but those experiments have set the stage for what scientists believe could be a burst of advances in human patients. "This is an exciting time in spinal-cord-injury research," says Dr. Wise Young, director of the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. "The progress in getting experimental therapies into clinical...