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According to Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Judy E. Garber, director of the cancer risk and prevention program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, screening will begin with tests for the gene in the healthy relatives of colon cancer patients...
...traffic swells, the Internet is beginning to suffer the problems of any heavily traveled highway, including vandalism, break-ins and traffic jams. "It's like an amusement park that's so successful that there are long waits for the most popular rides," says David Farber, a professor of information science at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the network's original architects. And while most users wait patiently for the access and information they need, rogue hackers use stolen passwords to roam the network, exploring forbidden computers and reading other people's mail...
...Netcom, which offer indirect telephone access for $10 to $20 a month. When all these users are taken into account, the total number of people around the world who can get into the Internet one way or another may be 20 million. "It's a large country," says Farber of the Internet population. "We ought to apply to the U.N. as the first nation in cyberspace...
...advertisements; use electronic mail to promote your product and you are likely to be inundated with hate mail directed not only at you personally but also at your supervisor, your suppliers and your customers as well. "It's a perfect Marxist state, where almost nobody does any business," says Farber. "But at some point that will have to change...
...George R. Siber, an associate professor of medicine, is a busy man on both sides of the vaccine development arena. As a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Siber works at finding keys to new vaccines. But as director of the Biological Laboratory division of the Mass. Department of Public Health, Siber oversees the manufacture and distribution of several of the most widely used vaccines to doctors and clinics at no cost...