Word: patiently
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...Keone's dream seems about to come true, thanks to a pioneering medical treatment. Exactly a year ago last week, Keone, now 13, became the first sickle-cell patient to receive a transplant of blood cells from the umbilical cord of a newborn infant. In effect, he got a new bloodmaking system. Other young sickle-cell patients have undergone transplants, but these involved bone-marrow cells and had to be matched precisely with the recipients' own blood. In Keone's case, though, his half-sister could not offer matching marrow. So his doctors decided to turn to more easily available...
...catastrophic failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter three months earlier, NASA is fast becoming the Dan Quayle of government agencies. Late-night comics have been roasting it mercilessly, while the Washington Post offered a Top 10 list of NASA excuses for the latest fiasco. (No. 10: Be patient. Mars Lander is trying to dial in on an AOL account.) Some cyberpranksters offered the Polar Lander for sale on eBay and got 16 bids...
ACOG is a professional group representing more than 40,000 physicians involved in women's care. It issues periodic recommendations, based on a patient's age and risk factors, on what types of screening, evaluation and counseling should be part of a woman's routine exams. The new recommendations replace a set issued two years...
...Diaz. The same day (talk about counterprogramming hitting counterprogramming, thus eliminating the point of counterprogramming), Jim Carrey does Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman's Man on the Moon. In this issue, we give you a look at The Talented Mr. Ripley, Anthony Minghella's follow-up to The English Patient that stars Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow in a wicked little tale about murder, sexual identity and Italian palazzos...
There is something different about an Oscar-worthy movie. It is larger than life, it has grand themes on love and life, it is supposed to inspire, thrill, move. In short, it is Dances With Wolves grand, it is Saving Private Ryan intense, it is The English Patient complex. Director Norman Jewison's (Moonstruck, Agnes of God) latest offering, The Hurricane, aspires to be an Oscar movie. It is lush, it is serious and boy does it try to stuff itself full with Oscar-worthy themes...