![]() ![]() ![]() “I’d read about it but never seen an adult patient.” “It is not unheard of to develop Niemann-Pick disease as an adult, but it is very, very rare,” Dr. Reynolds got by for more than four decades before the disease finally started taking a toll. Instead, a mutation occurred in a region of DNA that controlled the normal gene, hobbling it. But the other Niemann-Pick gene was normal. Like children with the disease, she inherited one Neimann-Pick gene that was so mutated it did not function at all. ![]() Reynolds’s disease was unusual, said her neurologist at the N.I.H., Dr. To get the disease, a person usually must inherit two faulty copies of the Niemann-Pick gene, one from each parent. Typically young patients die of aspiration pneumonia within a decade. The disease progresses relentlessly to include seizures and dementia. The fundamental problem is a steady accumulation of cholesterol and other lipids inside the body’s cells, which damages organs and the central nervous system. ![]()
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![]() But I like a good laugh, so I will definitely be watching this.īrides of Eden by Linda Crews-This young adult novel is based on the true story of the Creffield Cult that had a grip on Corvallis from 1903 to 1906. The Postman (movie) directed by and starring Kevin Costner-Post-“Dances With Wolves” auteur-Costner is generally not recommended except for a laugh. This book won several science fiction awards and nominations in 1986 when it debuted. The residents are ruled by a super-computer named Cyclops developed by scientists at OSU. ![]() He dons the coat of a deceased postman and gets caught up in a lie of hope when he encounters the surviving town of Corvallis. The Postman (book) by David Brin-This is a sci-fi tale of a wandering dreamer struggling to survive in post-apocalyptic America. I was surprised by how many options there are, and that’s not even getting into books not set in Corvallis but written by local authors! Here are just a few: ![]() ![]() This winter, I plan to try out something really close to home: a book or movie set in Corvallis. Winter’s chill, gray countenance offers the perfect excuse for snuggling up in a comfy chair and whiling away the hours with a book or movie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Snowden makes a lot of this Tolkien-y sort of thing-avatars, portents of destiny, signs of greatness. As a kid, he read about King Arthur, and his family name comes from Snaw Dun, a mountain in Wales on top of which the legendary ruler is said to have slain a terrible giant by sticking a sword in his eye. ![]() Snowden, who once aspired to be a model and is in some quarters regarded as a modern messiah, is the second kind. Some people write memoirs other people craft legends. ![]() Snowden’s new autobiography, “ Permanent Record” (Metropolitan), is the autobiography of a gamer, pale and bleary-eyed and glued to his screen, longing for invincibility. Another is of the day his father brought home a Commodore 64 and how exciting it was, that very first time, to hold a joystick. Snowden’s earliest memories is of sneaking around the house and turning back the time on all the clocks in the hope of tricking his parents into letting him stay up late to watch more TV. ![]() |