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...presented as safe. And it was going to the benefit of everyone." That's how Paul Gelsinger, a father of four from Tucson, Ariz., explained in an emotional appearance before a Senate subcommittee last week why he supported the decision made by his 18-year-old son Jesse to undergo gene therapy for a rare metabolic disorder Jesse had suffered from since birth...
...quite understand how publicists can think we're all mentally impaired. First, David Letterman's publicist randomly announces that Dave's heading into the hospital for a "check-up" and professes shock when the talk show host has to undergo 'emergency" bypass surgery. Lightning strikes twice when Steven Spielberg also heads in for a routine check-up and emerges with only one kidney. And the example that hits closest to home, Elisabeth Shue's spokesperson claimed that Shue wouldn't return until the fall--and yet, she's been spotted at various campus hotspots (with a very strange haircut...
...response, Russian generals lashed out as their Chechen adversaries hoped. From now on, Moscow announced, no Chechen male between the ages of 10 and 60 would be considered a refugee. They would be subjected to checks, and those suspected of "terrorism" would undergo further verification in detention centers. In the last war, these "filtration centers" were notorious as places of torture and death. This measure outraged the West, and Moscow quickly backed down. Now only males from 15 on will be subject to checks...
Granted, women will always choose their own paths to success, and Love is not the only star to undergo multiple transformations, (Love has obviously taken her cues from Madonna, the pioneer of tactical image changes). What media icons like Love do is not so much craft American culture but indicate its general state. It's just that the state we are in now is dangerously one-sided in its images of femininity...
...that's the crux of the problem. How many women should undergo what is, when it comes right down to it, unnecessary treatment to find a few more cases of cervical cancer? Shouldn't health officials focus instead on making sure that more women undergo regular Pap-smear examinations? After all, Pap smears, though far from perfect, have helped dramatically lower the death toll from cervical cancer--taking it from the No. 1 cause of death due to cancer in American women to the 10th...