Sheesh… I do a piece on Romanian gymnast Nadia Comeneci — and now everybody’s got to get in on the act.
To be fair, though: Tom Leonard’s article is more far substantial than mine (which was just an excuse to leer at her grownup tatas).
And it reminds us that Commies are unspeakable bastards.
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I only hope that this is true.
While it sounds like the stuff of science fiction, a cancer treatment in which a patient’s own cells are engineered to hunt down and wipe out their disease — and then linger in the body to stop the cancer returning — is helping to save patients’ lives.
The results of the treatment, known as CAR T-cell therapy, have been astonishing.
Patients who had exhausted all other options and been told they had just months to live have gone into remission. Others have even been cured by the one-off dose.
As someone who has been touched — twice* — by cancer, you have no idea how big this is to me.
Keep it going, guys.
*Imaginary Wife (Connie) died of ovarian cancer, and New Wife is a survivor of endometrial cancer.
Here’s an interesting one:
And to think that I suggested that very thing over ten years ago, as an unrealistic (at the time) plot device in Prime Target.
Good grief. Try this idiot on for size:
A woman who bought THREE of Italy’s €1 houses has warned of the real price of renovating the bargain-priced properties.
Solar consultant and business owner, Rubia Daniels, took up the fantastic offer in Mussomeli, Sicily – but quickly realised that it would total a MASSIVE €60,000.
No doubt she thought that the houses were going to be in pristine Islington-style condition, and that she could just move in and start enjoying the bargain. (She bought the other two for her children, by the way.)
Of course, what she got for her $3.90 were three houses that were in a state of disrepair approaching write-off — hence the low price — in a dying village without, say, a Home Depot (US) or Homebase (UK) outlet anywhere nearby.
And frankly, even if the whole tripartite reno does cost €60,000 she’ll still have three houses that cost €20,001 each, in this place:
…which quite frankly looks like any shithole town in Sicily where even €1 is too much to pay.
In my email:
Getting me to visit NYFC is a tough sell at the best of times.
Right now, you couldn’t pay me to go there.