Word: typed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet is a tool that is especially appealing to many people because it's the great equalizer, making age, gender and appearance irrelevant. Betty Kamen, 72, says many seniors like the Web for that reason. "No one knows that it may have taken you longer to type an answer," says Kamen, a nutrition writer. "If there are minor disabilities, no one knows about...
...laboratory animals spiral so completely out of control? The key is Kolata's piece in the Times and the prominent placement her editors gave it. "Within a year," she began, "if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance--in mice." It was a sentence that couldn't help grabbing readers' attention--despite those critical two words, "in mice"--and holding it throughout the rest of the story...
...that is taken once a day," says Dr. George Blackledge, head of new cancer projects at the Zeneca Group. Testing on patients is still at a very early stage. "We have to be cautious," he says, "but potentially this could be an effective new treatment for the most common type of lung cancer...
Last week's cascade of stories about drugs that can knock out cancer in mice sent patient hopes (and stock prices) soaring. But it also presented the type of challenge that is particularly important in covering potential medical breakthroughs, especially ones in which "cure" and "cancer" appear in the same sentence. "We were seeing a disturbing disconnect between the headlines and the actual science," says science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose staff was already reporting a cover on cancer. "We thought we could separate the hope from the hype with some expert explaining...
...think about is how TV-like the frame-rate is--so good, in fact, that I start to suspect a hoax. I mean, how would I know if there really was someone on the other end? It could be recorded. WAVE, IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I type, smug as Alan Turing. She waves. I run screaming from the office...