Sound medicine: Vivian Campbell, guitarist for the British heavy metal rock band Def Leppard, will rejoin the band during its current U.S. tour despite having to undergo treatments for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Campbell said his doctors have decided on a treatment regimen that doesn’t require radiation.
Instead of radiation treatments, doctors will destroy the cancer by standing Campbell in front of one of the massive speaker towers at each concert, turning the amps up to 11 and having Campbell play a series of power chords.
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Who wants to go out for lunch? Nearly a dozen people were sickened and sent to a hospital in Kentucky when a refrigerator at an animal pathology office was opened, releasing an overpowering odor. The odor was blamed on a chemical residue from something that had been left in the fridge.
The pro and con of working in an animal pathology lab. Con: Occasional noxious fumes from the fridge. Pro: Nobody ever steals your lunch, especially if you label it “lab culture.”
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1973, former White House counsel John Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.
Knowledge of Nixon’s enemies list was nearly revealed two years earlier when it was mistakenly switched with First Lady Pat Nixon’s Christmas Card list.
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