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Taming Cancer offers a hopeful and compelling vision of a future when metastatic cancer will no longer be a harbinger of suffering and death. Rather, cancer will be managed as a chronic ailment over long time frames, like diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. For the most fortunate patients, the elimination of cancer cells from the body—the long-sought cure for metastatic cancer—will become a reality for increasing numbers of patients.This powerful vision is enabled by the ongoing emergence of a new paradigm in cancer medicine that began at the dawn of this new century. The long-established, ...

GUNNY MAC: PRIVATE DETECTIVE — Trouble in ChinatownSteven G. Walker Honolulu, 1942. The Pacific War squeezes the islands like a vise. Chinatown sweats under blackout curtains, bent cops, and the sour reek of wartime graft. At the naval hospital, more than a thousand badly wounded Marines and sailors wait for their bodies—and their luck—to crawl back from the edge. One of them is Gunnery Sergeant Mac, Navy Cross in his pocket, Guadalcanal carved into his bones, and a discharge he never asked for.The Corps spits him out, and Mac drifts through the wards like a ghost with a pulse. A sh...

Set in 1978, we meet actor Danny Belson who has played many criminal types. But as the prisoner transport bus pulls out of the LA county jail, the realization of his conviction overwhelms him. The irony is that only six months ago he taught an acting workshop at the same institution he is now going to be incarcerated in. It is a fictional account of what happens to an “Everyman” that gets caught up in a system deliberately designed to treat all felons the same. Through flashbacks we follow Danny as he goes from a carefree actor, who's only worry is knowing when his next audition will come,...

She cannot recognize faces. That may be the only reason she can see the killer.FBI analyst Sarah Chen has spent her life compensating for prosopagnosia — a neurological condition that makes every human face unreadable. She identifies people by voice, gait, posture, and behavior. It is how she survived after a bombing in Mumbai left her damaged at age seven.At least, that is the story she was given.When an Assistant U.S. Attorney is strangled inside the Hoover Building by something the cameras can barely see, Sarah is pulled into a case no one else can explain. Eight days earlier, another vic...