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...characteristic present in about 30% of breast-cancer cells: too many copies of a gene known as HER-2/neu. This gene makes a protein that helps relay the signal telling cells to divide. Having too much of it is associated with an especially rampaging, hard-to-treat cancer. Once this form of breast cancer metastasizes, a patient typically has just six to 12 months to live...
...president of Merck Research Laboratories, he is overseeing the development of a drug that stops the RAS protein from sending its malignant message. Several other big drug companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Schering-Plough, are testing similar drugs. "We think the odds are that if you treat people with a good RAS drug, you will produce some clinical benefit," says Scolnick. Finding a new kind of cancer therapy based on gene discoveries like his own is, Scolnick admits, "my fondest hope...
...back further in time, and you'll find that shows like The Rat Patrol and Tony Orlando and Dawn had ratings of about 20. Thus the breadth of Seinfeld's audience is not at all exceptional. By this measure, it would be as logical to treat the end of Night Court as a cultural cataclysm...
...mail addresses. And it was easier still to find women to work in his facility. Most are former exotic dancers who were sick of the daily bump and grind and find the frictionless economy of the Internet a welcome relief. "We offer a much healthier lifestyle," says Hirsch. "We treat them like princesses...
...raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until the day theCatholics return and he falls back into theautomatic regimen of his youth...