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...gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide as chaperone. "We're extraordinarily fortunate to be on the doorstep of China," says Bill Weidner, president of Las Vegas Sands, which opened the Sands Macao in May. Despite the influx of big spenders, Macau is still a far cry from America's glamorous Sin City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon Stanley Ho, 82, who failed...
While Clinton confessed, it was without remorse. But there's no doubt that he sure is one sorry President! WENDY TURNER WEIDNER Mechanicsburg...
...hope this paper will stimulate others into looking into this," says Noel Weidner, a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a co-author of the New England Journal paper. Weidner's group is the only one at Harvard--and one of only a few in the world--currently studying angiogenesis, the sudden and dangerous transformation of benign tumors into malignant beasts...
...That's real hot information," says Weidner. If such a drug turns out to be as effective as preliminary tests have indicated, he adds, "it would be really exciting...
Although breast cancer is of major scientific and clinical import--about 150,000 American women each year are afflicted with the disease--researchers are still in the dark about whether the same mechanism for tumor growth applies to all other cancers. Weidner's group is just now beginning to repeat the breast cancer research, by performing similar tests on prostate cancers...