Word: pennsylvania
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Jesse Gelsinger, 18, had good reasons not to sign up for experimental gene therapy. Though the Tucson, Ariz., teen was born with a rare genetic disorder that partly disabled his liver, his course of drugs and diet was working. The Phase I trial at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors would pump a modified cold virus into his system to correct genetic flaws, promised nothing in the way of a cure...
...plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple organ failure. Doctors immediately began an internal analysis. "I consider this trial over," says Dr. James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy...
...Bradley to make a splash. The number of uninsured Americans is the one social problem that has grown worse during the Clinton Administration. For a decade, the issue has offered both opportunity and peril to Democratic candidates. In 1991, it elected the Democratic underdog Harris Wofford to one of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seats. One year later, Bill Clinton ran with it to the presidency. But the failure of the complicated plan that he and Hillary proposed contributed heavily to the Democrats' loss of Congress in 1994. This year's Democratic presidential candidates have learned the lessons of that debacle...
...details of the boycott--such as which companies it targets--will be announced at ECOnference 2000, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in mid-October. The conference is a meeting of student environmental leaders from across the nation...
...Pennsylvania (5-2-1, 2-1 Ivy) bounced back from a heart-breaking loss to the Crimson at the Harvard Invitational Saturday afternoon by defeating Boston University the following day by a score...