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Cheers, my friends! Tonight you’ll find me ringing in 2007 at the Blackhawk Museum’s “Casino Classic Celebration” with champagne, confetti and the whole nine yards.
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Bikers’ image changes with times 
The wind whipping in your face. The feel of the sunshine on your body. The sights and smells of the world around you.
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Jennie Victoria Franklin Reaves, 84: educator, community leader 
Jennie Victoria Franklin Reaves, an elementary school teacher for 35 years and the wife of one state representative and mother of another, died Friday of lymphoma. She was 84.
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Experimental Drug Shows Promise In Targeting Leukemic Stem Cells 
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found, in laboratory studies, that the experimental drug ABT-737 which has shown promise in some cancers, can destroy acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blast, progenitor and even stem cells that are often resistant to standard chemotherapy treatment.
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A study published recently in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology, has confirmed that patients who receive MabThera as maintenance therapy for lymphoma experience significantly longer remission and overall survival. [click link for full article]
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Obituaries - Community Press Mason & Deerfield Township 
Russell J. Ruschman, 83, Maineville, died Dec. 21. Preceded in death by father, George Ruschman; mother, Effie (nee Wright) Ruschman; and sister, Joyce New.
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Roll call of notables who died in 2006 
Gerald Ford ended “our long national nightmare.” Saddam Hussein was the United States’ adversary in two wars. So different, these men both died in the waning days of 2006, and the world paused to note their passing.
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Model Predicts Risk Of Leukemia Induced By Radiation Therapy 
A new analysis shows that it may be possible to accurately predict a cancer patient s risk of developing leukemia as a result of receiving radiation therapy for a primary tumor. Understanding these risks may help doctors optimize radiation treatment to minimize the side effects of this therapy, the authors say. [click link for full article]
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Famously Remembered 
A roll call of some of the notables who died in 2006.
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