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...University of Texas in Houston reported evidence that some cancers can be thwarted by isotretinoin, a man-made derivative of vitamin A that is sold as an anti-acne medication under the brand name Accutane. Fifty patients who had been successfully treated for cancer of the mouth and throat were given large daily doses of the drug for 12 months. After as much as three years, only two (4%) of the subjects developed a new cancer. In contrast, among 50 patients who received a placebo, 12 (24%) were stricken by a second tumor...
...find a lot of competitiveness among Harvard students--and not just among the ones who have their sciencefair award-winning volcanoes on display in their common rooms. Often the cut-throat impulse hides, lurking just below the surface, ready to spew forth when you casually suggest a friendly game of Computer Risk, or even worse, when you begin playing...
...from its sources of water, causing the volume of the once giant lake to shrink by two-thirds in 30 years. Now storms of salt and pesticides swirl up from the receding shoreline, contaminating the land and afflicting millions of Uzbeks with gastritis, typhoid and throat cancer. In Beijing, one-third of the city's wells have gone dry, and the water table drops by as much as 2 meters (2.2 yards) a year. In the Western U.S., four years of drought have left municipalities and agricultural interests tussling over diminishing water stocks. Says Ivan Restrepo, head of the Center...
...only to the Kaiser, whom he bullied and cajoled. Everyone expected that when the aged William finally died, his relatively liberal and high-minded son Frederick would lead the empire into a more enlightened era. But when William did die, in 1888, Frederick was already mortally ill with throat cancer, and so the throne soon passed to his temperamental and bellicose son William II, then 29, of whom his own mother once said, "My son will be the ruin of Germany...
...thousands of 2-lb. problems facing medicine. For more than a month he has been kept alive inside a plastic incubator. Miniature sunglasses are taped over his eyes, IV lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby is the dilemma," says Dr. Maureen Edwards, director of newborn services at the hospital. "You've started...