Clive Barnes, the New York Post's arts critic since 1977, died yesterday of cancer. He was 81. As a New York dance and theater critic for decades, his name was plastered all over Broadway in blurbs on theater marquees. A familiar figure, usually in a ...
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COVINGTON, La. — A Covington-area man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard’s chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the ...
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LOS ANGELES - Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies, the TV and radio hit "The Life of Riley" and the Oscar-nominated musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," has died. He was 94. Brecher died ...
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Nearly two decades after the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the families of the 180 Americans aboard the plane said Thursday they had received full compensation from Libya for the loss of their loved ones. At the same time ...
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Marissa Jaret Winokur will put her Tracy Turnblad wig back on and reprise her Tony winning role when she joins "Hairspray" again in its final weeks on Broadway, the Associated Press reports. Winokur, most recently seen on last season’s "Dancing ...
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Amgen Inc. 's decision to suspend a clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug motesanib because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company's efforts to expand in the market for oncology treatments. Amgen, the ...
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NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Controlling a certain enzyme could inhibit growth of lung, breast, colon and pancreatic cancers, University of Oklahoma researchers said. The researchers discovered that an enzyme called sFAP can act as a "scaffolding ...
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DEKALB, Ill., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than other drugs, U.S. researchers said. The new class of compounds could be less harmful than current ...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an array of nanotube devices, each coated with a different organic material, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology have developed diagnostic system that may be able to diagnose lung cancer simply by sampling a ...
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LONDON— British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Thursday that the Dutch government has selected its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix for a nationwide vaccination program. Glaxo did not disclose financial terms of the deal, which is a win for ...
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