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...Regulating levels of chemotherapy to reflect the changes in body rhythms that occur during day and night can increase its effectiveness, researchers say. Tumors shrank significantly in half the patients treated this way, compared with 30% of those who received regular therapy. Doctors have discussed the strategy, known as chronotherapy, for at least two decades, but only recently found a practical way to deliver doses linked to body rhythms...
...patients with malignant melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, a team led by Dr. Gary Nabel at the University of Michigan encased a tumor-fighting gene in liposomes, harmless little bubbles of fat. The genes found their way into the proper cells, and in at least one case the tumors shrank...
While reform candidates shrank from direct contact with the people, offering only boring TV speeches and glum-faced round-table discussions on esoteric subjects during the election campaign, Zhirinovsky held regular Saturday- afternoon street-corner rallies drawing crowds that numbered in the thousands. For every constituency, he designed a tailor-made message. The military received pledges of a resurrected and expanded Russian Empire. Fixed- income pensioners and students were promised a decent standard of living. Crime-weary citizens were assured that gang leaders would be executed. Meanwhile, foreigners were offered up as scapegoats, and Jews were blamed for provoking anti...
...with melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. The tumors were injected with the gene HLA-B7, which produces a protein that can help the immune system fight the cancer. In all five patients, the genes safely entered the tumor cells and began making protein, and in one case the tumors shrank. The technique is no miracle cure, but the experiment adds a promising new weapon to the arsenal of genetic medicine...
...children of the '50s became the moviegoing teenagers of the '60s and '70s, however, Hollywood's output of musicals shrank radically, and the genre had its last hurrah as an effectively two-woman industry: there were Julie Andrews musicals (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie), and there were Barbra Streisand musicals (Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, Funny Lady), and that was about it. Grease, a distant 15 years ago, was the last traditional movie musical to become...