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...promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these days I'm almost Pollyannaish about finding safer, more effective cancer therapies...
Some students interviewed yesterday said the bells desk has been made obsolete with the addition of electronic key card readers at the entrance to the house and added that the new policy makes them feel safer...
Devin M. Moriarity '97, who worked the graveyard shift at the desk, said it would be safer for desk employees as well, since no one should be alone at the house's only entrance in the early hours of the morning...
Climbing rocks, both real and ersatz, is catching on. The mainstream is jumping in because rock climbing is safer and easier in the 200 or so rock-climbing gyms that have opened nationwide. These indoor Rockies look Dali surreal. Climbers scale walls up to 70 ft. high, replete with overhangs, and dangle from ceilings made of gray granite or synthetic materials that resemble cliff faces. Color-coded hand- and footholds form routes of varying degrees of difficulty...
...reason to keep bears around, it's because they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could wipe out a city. And no one, to my knowledge, has ever cuddled up to a stuffed microbe...