Researchers develop cancer smart bomb in animals
Researchers at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Center report an immunoconjugate BR96-DOX that targets cancer cells with an antibody linked to doxorubicin. In mice and rats with human lung, breast, and colon tumors, high doses achieved cures and tumor regression with reversible damage to some normal tissue. The Science report notes strong preclinical evidence and potential human relevance.
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Pamela A. Trail
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Center
Princeton
N.J
Ms. Trail
Science
Louis M. Weiner
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia
Trail
Weiner
Mark Ratain
University of Chicago
Keating sentence sparks victims' anger over leniency
In Los Angeles AP report, Charles Keating Jr. faces a six year addition to his state term for the costliest S and L swindle. Victims including Wanda Bean and Leah Kane say the sentence is far too light. Prosecutors sought 25 to 30 years citing losses to 17,000 bondholders and $2.6 billion in taxpayer costs.
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Lincoln
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Mississippi River floods force evacuations across multiple states
Levees strained by the rising Mississippi drove mass evacuations in Missouri where about 7,000 people were ordered to leave. In Illinois National Guard and Army Corps crews shored a 52 mile levee as 2,000 residents in threatened towns fled. The disaster, now costing over 1 billion dollars, spans Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Wisconsin and Minnesota with federal disaster declarations and a White House emergency aid plan underway.
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Davenport
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Louisa County
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Washington Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights
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Jackpot winner keeping mum at Wisconsin store
A large crowd gathered outside Sentry Food Store South in Fond du Lac as a single Powerball ticket bought less than four hours before drawing claimed a $110 million prize. The winner has 180 days to claim.
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White water tragedy claims two brothers on Deschutes
In Bend Oregon Evelyn Van Poederoyens sons Steven Sheldon Jr. and Ben Lockhart launched a raft below Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River. Sheldon died and Lockhart is missing presumed drowned. Three of Lockharts children aged 3 4 and 7 survived after a rescuer reached Jesse who clung to a rock embankment for hours.
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Record flood forecast to surpass 1973 crest at St Louis
Army Corps engineers in the war room prepare to revise flood records as National Weather Service projects the Mississippi River at St Louis surpassing the 43.3 foot 1973 crest and reaching about 45 feet next week. projected peak flow could exceed 1 million cubic feet per second.
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