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Alas, nothing is perfect. Applications for FOP leaders are due today and I am reminded of a bone I've had to pick with the group since I applied to participate in FOP almost two years ago. That bone is that I had to apply at all. While approximately 600 members of an incoming class fill out a lengthy application to go on FOP, only half that number is admitted...
DIED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate; of pneumonia contracted after liver surgery on Jan. 10; in Boston. In 1983 Tsongas was found to have lymphoma, but it was successfully treated, and at his death there was no sign that it had returned. However, bone-marrow transplants he received contributed to liver problems, requiring the operation. A Democrat, Tsongas served two terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1978, but he decided to serve only one term because of his illness. With the cancer under control, he ran for President...
There are worse problems than hope. For years, in any of the mostly gay neighborhoods around the U.S., it was common to run across old friends turned stick figures, men carved to the bone by illness. Thirty-year-olds studied the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychologist who identified the stages in which the dying accept their fate and dryly marked their own progress, good schoolboys acing their last assignment. And everyone had a story about ashes. You heard about Dale, whose ashes blew back into everyone's face because the wind was coming ashore that...
DIED. CARL SAGAN, 62, scientist and eloquent popularizer of astronomy whose lectures, books and TV appearances brought the majesty of the universe to ordinary earthlings; of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone-marrow disease; in Seattle. Sagan's mantra of "billions and billions" of stars from his award-winning 1980 PBS series Cosmos became both the object of parody and popular shorthand for the vastness of the universe. The show attracted a global audience of more than 500 million people in 60 countries. A prolific writer, Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden...
...started the game, but 17 seconds into it, took an elbow to the face that broke the lower orbital bone of her right eye and left her vision blurred for days...