Fear in the Dark (1991)
A brief history of horror cinema. Narrated by Christopher Lee.
Featuring interviews with Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, and others.
On this day, 15 July 1902, the ‘Leckhampton Stalwarts’ led a march of 2,000 people from the centre of Cheltenham to Leckhampton Hill, where they tore down a cottage built by the new quarry owner. The Stalwarts were led by Walter Ballinger, a clay-digger, who was styled in the press as ‘The King of the Common’. The others were William Sparrow (road sweeper), Charlie Burford (labourer), Leonard Luce (painter), and John Price (tailor). The hill was quarried for its limestone for nearly 400 years, and for most of that time local people used the hill for recreation and travel. Piano merchant Henry Dale bought the quarries, as speculation, in 1894, and his first act was to post notices closing the paths and rights of way over the hill. He built a cottage for his foreman, Cratchley, which blocked a right of way and filled in a ‘pit’ where working people held a fair every Easter. Frustration came to a head in 1902 when at least 2,000 people marched on the hill and tore down the cottage, watched by the police who stated it was done ‘with no unnecessary circumstances of disorder.’ Tramway cottage was rebuilt and the Stalwarts set out to tear it down again in 1904 but the Riot Act was read and the ‘Stalwarts’ arrested and sentenced to hard labour. In 1927, Dale’s quarry company went bankrupt and the council bought the whole hill. It was designated as common land and today it remains open to all.
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For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder.
“It is just amazing how far things have come,” says Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss. “It is wonderful,” she told NPR in an exclusive interview after undergoing the landmark treatment for sickle cell disease.
Gray is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study testing the use of CRISPR for a genetic disease.
“I always had hoped that something will come along,” she says from a hospital bed at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tenn., where she received an infusion of billions of genetically modified cells. “It’s a good time to get healed.”
But it probably will take months, if not years, of careful monitoring of Gray and other patients before doctors know whether the treatment is safe and how well it might be helping patients.
In A 1st, Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder
Photos: Meredith Rizzo/NPR
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