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...Kimberly-Clark scaled back its use of rain forest-wood fiber after the organization published ads depicting ancient forests over the headline OLDEST LIVING THINGS ON EARTH OR TOMORROW'S TOILET PAPER? 3M signed on after RAN set up an 800 number for consumers to complain. Nike, Levi Strauss and Andersen Corp. (the largest U.S. window manufacturer) agreed without hesitation, and Kinko's is even marketing its eco-friendliness with a line of tree-free paper made from bananas...
...Strauss has seen much worse than this. All the same, it's a needle again, another IV, so she braces herself a little. The attending nurse inserts it into her arm, and tens of millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core of the thing she has struggled with for years. Strauss, 76, is a retired preschool teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., just down the road from Duke. For five years she has battled breast and liver cancer. Chemotherapy gave her two years in remission. The new breast-cancer treatment tamoxifen provided...
That was the point at which some people might have resigned themselves to the thought that it would only be a matter of time. Then last spring one of Strauss's doctors, Kim Lyerly, offered her an experimental therapy being developed at Duke's Gene and Cellular Therapeutics Center, where Lyerly is the clinical director...
...cultivated in sterile surroundings. The $1.5 million facility was paid for by the pharmaceutical giant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, based in Collegeville, Pa. But this particular deal is unusual in that the company has no commercial claim on any products developed through the use of the new lab. Sue Strauss is one of 18 Duke patients in Lyerly's trial, one of several vaccine tests approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
...Strauss settles back in the Piedmont sunshine. In a chair nearby, her husband sits silently. "I knew I wasn't going to curl up and die," she says. When she first learned she had cancer, her son, who is a physician, was worried that his mother would not live to see her first grandchild, not yet born at the time...