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...people making demands of him and wanting him to be here, there and everywhere--he does a tremendous job. He's done a great thing with his image and really kept it pretty clean," says Bulls backup center Bill Wennington. "And he's so cute." Jordan is a vessel into which America can pour anything it wants. He's noble, charming, righteous and kind, not because he necessarily is but because we want him to be. And, yes, Bill, it helps that he's good looking...
...undersea salvager, recovery was a different matter. Herndon's vessel went down 100 miles off the Carolina coast, somewhere in sea at least a mile and a half deep. When Tommy Thompson, by the early 1980s a marine engineer at the elite Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, became interested in undersea mining and salvage, technology for very deep recovery had not progressed much beyond the diving bell. This gadget, first developed in the 17th century, could go deep but do almost no real work...
...will angiogenesis inhibitors necessarily work equally well against all cancers. The Angiogenesis Foundation has analyzed 29 kinds of solid tumors and discovered that some rely much more heavily on blood-vessel networks than others...
Armed with such knowledge, younger researchers think they can improve on Folkman's techniques. They prefer a more targeted approach: selectively attacking the various molecules and biochemical signals involved in building a new blood vessel. For instance, researchers at Ixsys, a biotech company in San Diego, have developed an artificial antibody that dissolves the biochemical glue that holds a tumor's capillaries together. Indeed, one of the patients in their safety study exceeded all expectations when two of the tumors in his abdomen shrank 70%. "I've been on the drug now for over a year," says Barry Riccio...
HOPE FLOATS (May 29). Any actress' b.o. wattage is an on-off thing. Julia Roberts survived a dry spell, and--hello, anyone else out there?--Sandra Bullock returns to full-time twinkling in this romance, an antidote to last summer's torpedoed Speed 2. Let's hope this vessel floats...