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| Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Words to live by |
| Here are my fantasies about what was said over the New Year's holiday, with inadequate acknowledgments to various contributors, some of whose words I adapted a bit: |
| Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:00:00 EST Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Too slow for cancer |
| Bless that reporter who cut to the chase at the press conference last month announcing the new project to map the genes of individual cancers. The Cancer Genome Atlas, said National Institutes of Health officials, will blow open the instruction book on cancer. But if this venture is so revolutionary, the reporter asked, why is its pace so agonizingly slow? For the 40 percent of Americans who will face cancer, and for nearly everybody who's been convinced we are at the dawn of a new age of gene-targeted therapies, his question couldn't be more right on. |
| Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:00:00 EST Health Watch |
| The wild, wheezy, sniffly, sneezy West; too much medicine for heart attacks; TB tests get a modern makeover; Mom was right about carrots; new food labeling does no harm |
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| Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:35:59 GMT Fires Ravage Oklahoma City, Texas Towns (AP) |
AP - Grassfires raged across the dry southern prairie Sunday, burning homes in Oklahoma City, destroying two small towns in Texas, and creating patchworks of flames as burning embers were blown by the gusting winds.
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| Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:24:57 GMT Florida Teen Home After Iraq Adventure (AP) |
AP - A 16-year-old who took off to Iraq alone to experience the lives of its people firsthand arrived back in Florida on Sunday, ending a three-week Middle East odyssey — much to the relief of his parents.
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| Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:29:32 GMT Bush Calls Domestic Spy Program 'Limited' (AP) |
AP - President Bush strongly defended his domestic spying program on Sunday, calling it legal as well as vital to thwarting terrorist attacks, and contended the leak making it public had caused "great harm to the nation."
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