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First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved – Generic English

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May

Health

First Patient Begins Sickle Cell Gene Therapy That F.D.A. Approved – Generic English

Associated media - Related media Top of the Waiting List Last week, Kendric came prepared for the stem cell collection — he has spent many weeks in this hospital being treated for pain so severe that on his last visit, even morphine and oxycodone could not control it. He brought his special pillow with a Snoopy pillowcase that his grandmother gave him and his special Spider-Man blanket. And he had a goal. “I want to be cured,” he said. Bone marrow stem cells, the source of all the body’s red and white blood cells, are normally nestled in a person’s…

Many Ukrainian Prisoners of War Show Signs of Trauma and Sexual Violence

28

May

By Joseph Taylor

International

Many Ukrainian Prisoners of War Show Signs of Trauma and Sexual Violence

Linked media - Linked media Interrogators put him through a mock execution, firing a volley of gunfire beside him while he was blindfolded. They threatened him with rape, the serviceman said, making him choose what they should use — a mop handle or the leg of a chair. “Do you want to do it yourself or do you want us to help you?” they taunted him. He said that he was never actually penetrated, but that others were raped. “After that you cannot walk normally,” he said. “You suffer for weeks. Other guys had the same treatment.” “I think they…

Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks – Generic English

27

May

By Joseph Taylor

Investments and Business

Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks – Generic English

Connected media - Related media Hiive bought $50 million of Anthropic stock and is letting investors buy chunks as small as $25,000, said Sim Desai, the company’s chief executive. The site oversees an average of around $20 million in deals a week. At Augment, which opened last year, investors interested in owning shares in Stripe can peruse four “sell orders,” or people trying to sell Stripe shares. Augment did more than $20 million of transactions in March, Mr. Moldvai said. Some investment funds — including Stack Capital, Fundrise, Private Shares Fund and ARK Invest’s ARK Venture Fund — are also…

The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect – Generic English

27

May

By Joseph Taylor

Health

The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect – Generic English

Connected media - Linked media When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started to hear the same kind of question time and again: How are we supposed to connect with one another when nobody talks anymore? In an age when participation in community organizations, clubs and religious groups has declined, and more social interaction is happening online instead of in person, some young people are reporting levels of loneliness that, in past decades, were typically associated with older adults. It’s one of the many reasons loneliness has become a problem at both the…

TikTok Star Is Killed in Third Death of Social Media Influencer in Iraq

27

May

By Joseph Taylor

International

TikTok Star Is Killed in Third Death of Social Media Influencer in Iraq

Related media - Related media It took less than 46 seconds for the helmeted assassin to pull over his motorcycle, walk to the driver’s side of the S.U.V., yank open the door and fire his handgun four times, killing one of Iraq’s most prominent TikTok personalities, a 30-year-old woman whose name on social media was Um Fahad. The security camera footage of the killing in front of a Baghdad home on Friday evening is startlingly explicit but sheds little light on either the killer’s identity or the reason Um Fahad was targeted. The Iraqi Interior Ministry, which released the video,…

China Is Buying Gold, Sending Prices to Record Highs – Generic English

26

May

By Joseph Taylor

Investments and Business

China Is Buying Gold, Sending Prices to Record Highs – Generic English

Connected media - Connected media Beijing is buying up gold to diversify its reserve funds and reduce its dependence on the U.S. dollar, long considered the most important currency to hold in reserve. China has been reducing its U.S. Treasury holdings for more than a decade. As of March, China had about $775 billion worth of U.S. debt, down from about $1.1 trillion in 2021. When China increased its gold holdings in the past, it bought domestically using renminbi, said Guan Tao, global chief economist at BOC International in Beijing. But this time, he said, the bank is using foreign…

Deadly Russian Strikes Hit Civilian Center and Other Targets in Odesa

26

May

By Joseph Taylor

International

Deadly Russian Strikes Hit Civilian Center and Other Targets in Odesa

Connected media - Connected media Bomb disposal experts and human rights groups have said those bomblets, which are mass-produced and inexpensively made, generally have a 20 percent failure rate, often leaving behind hazardous duds that can explode later if mishandled. Because they are small, those duds can lay unnoticed among debris or vegetation and weigh so little that children can pick them up without realizing their danger. If confirmed, their use in Monday’s attack could mark an escalation in Russia’s tactics that are intended to make life miserable for Ukrainian civilians, including bombing power plants to cut off electricity to…

Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for .7 Million – Generic English

26

May

By Joseph Taylor

Investments and Business

Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for $3.7 Million – Generic English

Connected media - Linked media The box went to an anonymous buyer in Canada, Mr. Simonds said, breaking the record for the most money spent on unopened sports cards and the most anyone has spent on a hockey collectible. Baseball Card Exchange, an authenticator that specializes in unopened vintage sports cards, confirmed that 16 wax boxes were inside the case. Each box contains 48 packs of cards, with 14 cards per pack, for a total of more than 10,000 cards. The set contains 396 different player cards, which means that if the assortment were perfectly random, it would contain 27…

When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer – Generic English

25

May

By Joseph Taylor

Investments and Business

When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer – Generic English

Related media - Linked media Edens isn’t daunted. Over dinner one night, he told me about a hotel that he recently built in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The project included a club where members could store skis and have their cars parked by valets. Everyone, including partners, told him it wouldn’t work. “A lot of the locals said, ‘That’s not Jackson Hole, that’s not true to our heritage,’” Edens said. “ ‘We’re not Vail. We carry our own stuff.’” He disagreed. “Who thinks carrying your three young kids’ ski stuff through a parking lot is a good idea?” Edens proceeded with the…

Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness – Generic English

25

May

By Joseph Taylor

Health

Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness – Generic English

Associated media - Associated media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink them. He whispered his last recorded words: “Pity, pity — too late!” For a composer, deafness had been perhaps the worst affliction. At age 30, 26 years before his death, Beethoven wrote: “For almost 2 years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf. If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with…