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WBUR: Here and Now

Produced by WBUR FM in Boston and PRI, Here and Now features fast breaking news, more leisurely analysis, and human interest stories. We also cover the arts: film, theater, music and much much more.

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Here and Now for Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Date: 05/21/2008
Length: 00:44:41

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy was released from the hospital today, one day after news broke that the 76 year-old democrat was diagnosed with a potentially lethal form of brain cancer. We speak to long-time Kennedy watcher, Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe. We also speak to Congressional correspondent, Gail Chaddock of the Christian Science Monitor, about how Kennedy's absence from the Senate could effect legislation. There is new hope in the fight against cancer. Scientists are working together with doctors and engineers to develop new weapons to both fight and detect cancer. They're called nanoparticles and they could be implanted in your body to identify cancer cells or even deliver chemotherapy to specific areas. We speak with Michael Cima, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also with his brother, Dr. Robert Cima, a gastrointestinal surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The Financial Times reports today that the credit rating agency Moody'

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