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...Council also voted unanimously to elect Councillor Henrietta J. Davis as vice mayor...
...Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...
...young black woman named Henrietta Lacks was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital and given a diagnosis of cervical cancer. During treatment, doctors removed a sample of her tumor and sent it to a research lab without her permission. Lacks died a few months later, but the sample lived on--and on and on. The strain, dubbed HeLa, was the first human tissue to be successfully kept alive as a culture. Since her death, Lacks' cells have been shot into space, infected with tuberculosis and zapped with radiation to test the effects of a nuclear bomb. HeLa helped develop the polio...
Also in a unanimous vote following a 10-minute recess, Councillor Henrietta J. Davis was elected vice mayor...
After seven weeks of City Council meetings, none of the top three candidates—Councillors David P. Maher, Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, and Henrietta J. Davis—have yet mustered the necessary five votes to win the mayoral elections, though Maher has managed four votes over the past four election sessions...