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...young science of gene therapy - there have been other trials on procedures in other organs - but, as a milestone, it's a good marker of where the field stands today. At its most basic, gene therapy is anything that introduces new genetic material to help fight or prevent a disorder. Treatment options are still in the experimental stages, and are not free of philosophical critics. But gene therapy has also been heralded as a potential cure for all kinds of genetic diseases (think cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia) and even for cancer - with promising lab results to back...
Smoking is often an integral part of character portrayal and has been for decades; R ratings for movies with smoking scenes would prevent minors from viewing such classics as Good Night and Good Luck; Casablanca, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s–to name a few–as well as animated movies like 101 Dalmatians in which the villain, Cruella DeVil, smokes incessantly...
...been told play out as sworn testimony. Some witnesses encase their truths in leaden prose. Not so James Comey, a former Deputy Attorney General, who unspooled a vivid tale in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the night in March 2004 when he raced to the hospital to prevent two top White House aides from taking advantage of his critically ill boss, John Ashcroft, in a dispute over the Administration's secret domestic eavesdropping program. Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was incapacitated by pancreatitis. Like his boss, Comey had come to believe that President George W. Bush...
...first woman to lead a modern Muslim state, Bhutto was Prime Minister twice in the 1990s and remains popular despite the venal corruption that plagued her administration. A deal could allow Bhutto to return and lead her political party, even though term limits would prevent her from running for office...
...dramatic testimony Tuesday, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he raced to the intensive care unit of George Washington University Hospital that evening to intercept Gonzales and White House chief of staff Andrew Card and prevent them from convincing Ashcroft to reauthorize the program after Justice Department lawyers had concluded that it was illegal. Comey, who during Ashcroft's stay in the hospital was acting Attorney General, has told Congressional investigators that when he arrived at the room and began explaining to Ashcroft why he was there, he was intentionally "very circumspect" so as not to disclose classified information...