Cheers to Schneck, et. al

Published November 30, 2008 5:00am ET



BRIGHT BULB: Researchers advance on ovarian cancer. New clues about how the ovarian cancer tumor works to evade the body’s immune system could offer new leads for treatment and early diagnosis, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. “This really allows us to now target a specific cell type which is the first, we think, to not function properly,” Dr. Jonathan Schneck said.

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“I wanted to keep ‘Hamilton’ largely image-based, to reduce the expository use of dialogue and plot contrivance, and really focus on the characters’ movements.” — Baltimore filmmaker Matt Porterfield, whose film will be shown Tuesday at the Maryland Institute College of Art.