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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 23:32:30 EST Miners' relatives hope and wait |
| Rescue teams are slowly descending into a coal mine where 13 men were trapped by an explosion early Monday, but there are no clues yet to the fate of the miners, representatives of the mine's owner said. On the surface, friends and family gathered at a church near the Sago Mine, Upshur County, West Virginia, to wait for news. |
| Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:53:39 EST Rescuers search for roof collapse survivors |
| Workers in a southern German town were pressed their search in the snow early Tuesday for survivors after a roof collapsed at a Bavarian skating rink. |
| Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:59:27 EST Recovery teams search for fire victims |
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