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...York Magazine Shops - A Guide to the Best Stores in New York." With one of the very few shops in the city where hats are actually made on the premises, Barbara and apprentice designer Mei Lan Low hand-block and hand-craft hats from start to finish using techniques and equipment scarcely changed since the 19th century. Says Feinman, "Some of the wood blocks we use are probably 100 years old, and the sewing machine we sew hats on, called a setup machine, is a refurbished antique. You can't buy a new one; the machines are not manufactured anymore...
...first and most famous of these are Wyeth-Ayerst’s Enbrel, and Remicade, manufactured by a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, which have been in use now for roughly two years. Both Enbrel and Remicade inhibit a key messenger in the inflammatory cascade known as the tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The drugs are both more effective than traditional medications, and more likely to slow down joint degradation. "The idea that biologics could prove effective against autoimmune diseases has been firmly established by the TNF story," says Dr. H. Michael Belmont of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York...
Glivec is just one of several new therapies that work by cutting a cancer cell’s lines of communication, either preventing it from reproducing or forcing it to self-destruct. Other signal-jamming treatments use monoclonal antibodies, tiny proteins that resemble the human immune system’s own antibodies but which bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York-based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known...
...should never use the word 'replacement' [when talking about Cleary]," Knowles said. "Such people are simply irreplaceable...
Louisiana Democratic Sen. John Breaux flew to Austin Friday and the first words out of his mouth during a lunch with George W. Bush were "I want to stay in the Senate" and not join the president elect's cabinet as energy secretary. But Breaux did use the lunch to make a plug for his Louisiana buddy, former Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnston, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee before he retired in 1996. "I can't think of anybody better," Breaux told Bush. Johnston shares Bush's views on energy policy. "If you want to have...