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...Anderson, teaming up with Drs. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver at the National Institutes of Health, used in a landmark experiment three years ago. The disease the team targeted was severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), often called the bubble- boy disease because its most famous victim was encased in a plastic bubble during his short life to protect him from infection. One form of SCID called ADA deficiency is caused by a defect that blocks production of adenosine deaminase, a key enzyme; without it, important immune-system blood cells are immobilized...
Before I tell you the two cardinal rules of plastic, I've got to tell you about this little gimmick. I'm a fan of AT&T, so I have mixed feelings about revealing it. But until they close the loophole, how can I resist? It wasn't my idea; it comes from Denny Cunningham, a sharp-eyed user of my computer program. And it's this simple: if you have an AT&T Universal MasterCard, as 11 million of us do, and if you pay your balance in full each month, there's no interest charge on cash advances...
MONEY ANGLES: Plastic Ploy...
...Jackson cut short his world concert tour after admitting addiction to legal painkillers. Several days before, he gave a taped deposition, played last week during a music-plagiarism suit, and the star's speech was vague, slurred, fretful and forgetful. Further questions are raised about the extensive plastic surgery performed by Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who has also worked on Michael's sisters, on the star's face and perhaps other parts of his body. Declares a rival plastic surgeon, Dr. Wallace Goodstein: "LaToya is mutilated. Hoefflin is a mirror of Michael and LaToya's character disorders. He has etched...
American official taste -- late-modernist taste -- shows no real or sustained interest in artists who are prepared to make a life's work out of the challenge of imbuing real figures and objects with strong plastic meaning in deep space. There are a few exemptions, such as Philip Pearlstein, but that is all, unless you want to count Andrew Wyeth's Helgas, those goose-pimply feminine-hygiene ads that are to painting more or less what The Bridges of Madison County is to the novel. It seems that with the single exception of Thomas Eakins, who died more than...