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Weller, who retired from his Harvard teaching responsibilities in 1980, went on to isolate and grow varicella-zoster viruses for chicken pox and shingles and cytomegalovirus, a member of the herpesvirus family that can cause birth defects. With the urine sample of his 10-year-old son Robert A. Weller, who developed a severe case of the measles, Weller and his Harvard colleague, Franklin A. Neva, identified the virus for rubella, or German measles...
Weller is survived by his wife, Kathleen F. Weller; two sons, Peter and Robert; two daughters, Janet L. Weller and Nancy K. Weller; and six grandchildren...
...cancer? It's all the rage. Actress Christina Applegate, Senator Ted Kennedy, Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau, columnist Robert Novak are just the highest profile of the 1.4 million Americans who will get a diagnosis of cancer this year. Walk into the oncology waiting room of a hospital and you'll find it hard not to notice the crowd--or the balding heads, the yellow faces, that gaunt prisoner-of-war look of those who are well into their chemotherapy. You stare blankly across the room at the others staring blankly back, everyone silently asking the question: Am I going...
...power; Gustav also seems to have passed over another speed bump in the form of a rare swath of healthy marshes. "It's really incredible; a slight variation of the track either way could have meant six more feet of storm surge," says Louisiana State University coastal scientist Robert Twilley, who studied Gustav's track. "I hope nobody gets a false sense of security." The barrier islands that once protected New Orleans have eroded, and most of the city's nearby marshes are gone. Every hour, Louisiana loses more than a football field's worth of the wetlands that once...
...family earns $90,000 would have to pay as little as $4,500 to go to Harvard but would get little to no financial aid to help cover Berkeley's annual cost of $25,000. A no-loan program "is not a sustainable solution for us," says Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who is heading a task force charged with examining how to keep college affordable for all families in the state. "We'd likely not be able to help the poorest students as well down the line." (To see the evolution of the college dorm room click here...