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...laboratories and cancer wards around the world, as treatments that were little more than half-baked ideas a decade ago now enter the final stages of testing. Of some 350 new compounds and molecules being tested on patients with cancer, more than half are based on innovative, sometimes even bizarre-sounding ways of homing in on tumors. Hundreds more are in earlier stages of development, putting clinicians and drug companies in the novel position of having more promising cancer treatments in the pipeline than they can possibly handle...
...most recent results, 30 percent showed no chromosomal sign of disease and appeared to have been cured. "This drug is amazing," says Richard Stone, an oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, who has been testing Glivec (also known as an STI, for signal transduction inhibitor). "Even patients who are near death, at the end stage of this disease, are going into remission...
...actually disagree with this in many ways. I believe that politics, at its best, can and does deal with what human hearts endure. And even in that hospital, I saw the good that government can do, from the education grants it gave to our doctor to the safety regulations that governed the use of anesthesia...
...that is not going to be around in a few years time." Moderation? China and Russia aren't rivals - they're "nations that are seeking their way" to capitalist democracy. North Korea or Iraq are merely "nations poorly led." (Where was this guy when they renamed "rogue states"?) He even tossed in an eerie parallel to the current domestic America, about the Cold War ending "the old world map of a red side and a blue side. The new map is a mosaic...
...Senate Republicans, even moderate ones, are suspicious that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and other Democrats are just singing bipartisanship for the cameras. The main goal the Democrats have is "to take back the House and Senate in 2002 and the White House in 2004," says Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Other Republicans agree. "Everyone wants to be known as a bipartisan now," says one GOP Senate aide. "All that will end by January." Gore's concession speech marks "the beginning of the 2002 and 2004 elections. The Democrats have little incentive to negotiate and compromise. It's going...