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...Robert B. Watson...
...director of the Department of Athletics during this period was Robert B. Watson ’37. Watson was at first reluctant to allow women to have access to better facilities or resources at the expense of the men’s teams. The Crimson reported in the spring of 1974 that Watson said he did not think female athletes were as serious or intense as male athletes...
...block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted as saying Dr. Judah Folkman, the Harvard researcher, would use these inhibitors to "cure cancer within two years...
...block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted as saying Dr. Judah Folkman, the Harvard researcher, would use these inhibitors to "cure cancer within two years...
...Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced with great fanfare the approval of a new drug, Gleevec, that doesn't cure all cancers but seems to be effective in treating two rare types that are particularly resistant to conventional treatment (see story below). Meanwhile, the broader approach Watson was promoting--one that would work against a wide array of cancers--is still very much alive and may yet deliver on its original promise...