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More than 200 people packed the Fairchild Biochemistry Lecture Hall Friday afternoon to hear Children's Hospital researcher M. Judah Folkman speak about his research which identifies human proteins that may be used as drugs to shrink cancer tumors...
...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...
...Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline--and Cher...
...really wish you hadn't done that to us. You don't know what scars you ignited. Deep within an out gay person is the buried anxiety to hide, to cover up, to shrink from being oneself--left over from a time when that's what life was about. That's what you stirred in me. You made me nervous to be out and gay on my own campus. You made me anxious to crawl back to the comfort of my own car and to my own room to be gay in peace. At the table you made...
...children of the clinical age, and the ADD phenomenon is a very concrete and democratic example of this fact. While the shrink and the quack are psychiatric types confined to a certain cross-section of society--types that have been vigorously caricatured in Hollywood movies--no one is making light of ADD, a phenomenon which directly affects far more people from all walks of life...