Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cancer might not recur. The problem was that CellPro's experiments were still in their infancy. Said Nicole Provost, leader of the purging team: "I told them we needed about nine months. They told me we had eight weeks. Our first reaction was, 'Oh, man.' I mean, this was Rick's life...
Thus began what Provost and her three-member team called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided...
...worked," said Joe Tarnowski, CellPro senior V.P. "Doing the separations later gave us a second level of purging." With a "compassionate use" waiver from the FDA, the procedure was ready for testing. "Rick was the guinea pig," says Tarnowski...
With lowered banners and lifted spirits, Boston and the Celtics welcomed Rick Pitino last Thursday at a press conference on the old parquet floor of the new Fleet Center. Actually, "welcomed" is an understatement. Pitino, who agreed to leave his old Kentucky home two days before to become coach and president of the once proud but lately pathetic franchise, was coddled, crowned and canonized...
Cynical sportswriters believed him when Pitino said it wasn't about the money; it was about the challenge and the tradition. Red Auerbach, the legendary coach, said he willingly gave up his title as president because "Rick has been my choice all the way down the line--I never dreamed we could get him." And Celtic Hall of Famer John Havlicek, resplendent in a green blazer, proclaimed, "This is a great day in the history of this great franchise." The love-in was so overwhelming that people wouldn't have been terribly surprised if the Celtics had announced they were...