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1. SAMUEL SKAGGS and ALINE SKAGGS This Utah grocery-and-drugstore magnate and his wife gave $100 million to San Diego's Scripps Research Institute to establish the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, which will study new approaches to pharmaceutical design. The Skaggs donation matches the largest gift ever made...
There is something to the panspermia theory, however. Even scientists who reject it acknowledge that some of life's building blocks probably had extraterrestrial origins. Indeed, they now believe that everything from organic chemicals to amino acids, the constituents of proteins, was carried in by the comets, asteroids and meteorites...
Dr. Gupta, reviewing his notes on the case, says Dr. McMillan agreed Christy was a candidate for a transplant but said she would first have to undergo several cycles of chemotherapy to demonstrate that her tumor would respond to the potent drugs used in bone-marrow therapy. In the deMeurerses...
A week later, Christy, accompanied by her mother, returned to Dr. Gupta, whom they still viewed as a beacon of warmth. "There's lots of hope, lots of things to do," Nesmith recalls his saying. Christy, dissatisfied with her reception at Scripps and reluctant to undergo months of treatment away...
Dr. Gupta confirms he saw Christy that day but says he does not recall this aspect of their encounter. He did not in fact have the authority to make such referrals, he says; these can only be made by a patient's primary-care physician. Asked why, then, he felt...