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...About a quarter to eleven people started coming up to me and giving me tickets," says Bell. "There must have been 20 to 25 people." The tickets, which were each good for one dance with Bell, had been made on a Mac. "I wasn't planning on going to the unveiling party," says Bell...
...results were impressive for several types of cancer. In eleven of the 25 patients, tumors shrank by 50% or more. Among the patients showing this response were three out of three with kidney cancer and four out of seven with melanoma, a particularly dangerous form of skin cancer that often spreads to the internal organs. In one melanoma patient who previously had widespread tumors, all signs of malignancy disappeared. There was, however, no response at all in 14 of the patients, and the outlook, even for those who have improved, remains uncertain; none has been observed for more than...
Most major companies have stampeded to produce a line of so-called male action figures like Mattel's Masters of the Universe. Since 1982, when the line was introduced, California-based Mattel has sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending...
...young-looking 33, and has never held public office. But when Joseph P. Kennedy II, the second of Robert Kennedy's eleven children, announced last week that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat to be vacated next year by outgoing Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, he had the weight of history behind him: his uncle John F. Kennedy won Massachusetts' Eighth Congressional District in 1946. "That seat," said another uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, "obviously has special meaning to our family...
...scientific standpoint it will be nothing short of the Fourth of July. Next March, as Halley's speeds toward its closest approach to earth, it will be greeted by five diminutive, instrument-crammed space probes, two launched by Japan, two by the Soviet Union and one by the eleven nations of the European Space Agency (ESA). The close encounters were set for March because that is when the comet passes through earth's orbital plane, the same level in which the spacecraft travel. Over several whirligig days, the flotilla will scrutinize the comet in exhaustive detail, from the fuzzy gaseous...