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...cuts made by then-governor Mitt Romney. Local officials said the financial strains of the cuts would be felt immediately. “This a difficult economic season and it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Cambridge city councilor Sam Seidel. —Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu...
...very personal experience that brought Melton to stem cells, one that 17 years later he still finds difficult to discuss. When his son Sam was 6 months old, he became ill with what his parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton...
...until that evening that a nurse thought to dip a testing strip into Sam's urine and they finally got a diagnosis. The boy's body was flooded with sugar; he had Type 1 diabetes. Then, as now, the disease had no cure, and patients like Sam need to perform for themselves the duties their pancreas cannot - keeping track of how much glucose they consume and relying on an insulin pump to break down the sugars when their levels climb too high. The diagnosis changed not only Sam's life but the lives of his parents and older sister Emma...
...patients like Sam and Emma Melton, that ride carries with it the possibility of being free of the insulin pumps and injections they endure to keep their blood sugar under control. "I definitely think about how my life would be different if there is a cure," says Sam. His father is keenly aware that the ability of stem cells and reprogramming science to provide that cure is far from guaranteed. But his initial confidence in the power of the technology hasn't waned. "Everything we learned about stem cells tells us this was a really powerful approach," he says...
...Shea said he will draw on personal experience as he crafts his research project, which will focus on “the conflicts between editors and owners of newspapers.” O’Shea was leading the L.A. Times when it was taken over by Sam Zell, a billionaire real-estate investor, who many criticized for cutting content and jobs in response to the paper’s deteriorating financial situation...