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...apocryphal stories about its apparently random nature - of some haggard two-pack-a-day smoker who lived to be 96, versus the exquisite gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine checkup and was told she wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard...
...look was reassuringly ordinary: a smiling, Waspy face under a helmet of graying hair. But what he did onstage was unsettling. His act was in part that of an entertainer at a kid's birthday party--juggling, fashioning balloon animals, wearing a gag arrow through his head--but the whole thing was set within ironic quotation marks. It was stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were...
...mark Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday and the centennial of the Lincoln penny, the 1¢ coin is undergoing its first redesign in 50 years. Set to debut in 2009, the new look will still have the familiar portrait of the 16th President on the heads side, but tails will feature one of four scenes from his life. (Being considered is one of Lincoln speaking before the Illinois legislature.) That is, if the project survives. It was approved two years ago, before metal prices jumped. At last count, each penny cost 1.67¢ to produce...
...Ecuador, and he was parachuted in to become the new general manager. This time his Chilean-born wife refused to go with him. She stayed in Switzerland with the children, and she and Brabeck divorced. But there too Brabeck showed his famous persistence. Ten years later, on his 50th birthday, the couple remarried...
...slow slide into decadence during a retirement marked by continued reports of substance abuse, sex scandals and violent confrontations with the paparazzi, Maradona is revered here here as "Saint Maradona," or simply "El Diego." A "Maradonian Church" has been created with followers who gather to celebrate his birthday every year with a "Maradona Mass" that includes dancing girls in front of a "Maradonian" altar...